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Volume XXX, No. 1 Winter 2010 Table of Contents from the President Neville Symington’S a Healing Conversation What Is the Division up to Now? Michael J

Volume XXX, No. 1 Winter 2010 Table of Contents from the President Neville Symington’S a Healing Conversation What Is the Division up to Now? Michael J

Psychologist– ψ Psychoanalyst Volume XXX, No. 1 Winter 2010 Table of Contents from the president Neville Symington’s A Healing Conversation What is the Division Up to Now? Michael J. Diamond ...... 32 Mary Beth Cresci ...... 1 Louis Breger’s A Dream of Undying Fame: How Freud To the Editor Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis Ken Thomas ...... 5 Joseph Barber ...... 34 In Memoriam: Lester Luborsky ...... 6 Committee Reports When Your Heart Cries Out, Being Carried Off Membership Henry M. Seiden ...... 7 Devon King ...... 36 PSYCHOANALYTIC BOOKS Publications Paul Stepansky’s Psychoanalysis at the Margins Henry M. Seiden ...... 38 Karen Maroda ...... 9 Diversity Paul Wachtel’s Relational Theory and the Practice of William A. MacGillivray ...... 38 Psychotherapy Candidate Outreach Caleb Seifert ...... 11 Heather Pyle ...... 40 Marilyn Nissim-Sabat’s Neither Victim Nor Survivor: Education and Training Thinking Toward a New Humanity David Downing ...... 40 Jon Mills ...... 13 Council Robert C. Lane’s Envy, Entitlement, Revenge and Negativity William A. MacGillivray ...... 41 and A Developmental Perspective on the Life Cycle and Section Reports Treatment Process Section III Saralea Chazan ...... 16 Judith Logue ...... 43 Mary-Joan Gerson’s The Embedded Self Section IV Michael Zentman ...... 17 William A. MacGillivray ...... 43 Marshall Silverstein’s Disorders of the Self Section IX Fred M. Levin ...... 20 Alice Lowe Shaw ...... 44 Ofelia Rodriguez-Srednicki and James A. Twaite’s Local Chapter ReportS Understanding, Assessing and Treating Adult Victims Oklahoma of Childhood Abuse Laurel Van Horn ...... 45 Laura Barbanel ...... 21 Appalachian Linda Andre’s Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t William A. MacGillivray ...... 45 Want You to Know about Shock Treatment Phildelphia Bert P and Mary K. Karon ...... 23 Jeanne Seitler & Julie Nemeth ...... 46 David Black’s Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Board of Directors Meeting Minutes Century: Competitors of Collaborators? April 23, 2009 ...... 47 Ryan LaMothe ...... 25 August 7, 2009 ...... 51 Gabriele Schwab’s Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS ...... 54 Louis Rothschild ...... 28 Directory ...... 55 Simon Clarke, Herbert Hahn, and Paul Hoggett’s Object Relations and Social Relations: Implications of the Relational Turn in Psychoanalysis . Louis Rothschild ...... 30 Psychologist– ψ Psychoanalyst Official Publication of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association Volume XXX, No. 1 Winter 2010

What is the Division Up to Now? Mary Beth Cresci, PhD embers of graduate work is a considerable leap. APA eases the pain MDivision for ECP’s to be APA members by establishing a stepped- 39 may assume up dues structure so that ECP’s can slowly adjust to their that the Spring new postgraduate status. Unfortunately, the APA dues Meeting and our statement does not allow divisions to list different dues program at the APA rates for ECP’s. This technical difficulty did not seem to Convention in the be an adequate reason to give up on finding ways to make late summer are the Division membership affordable to ECP’s. So, with the most active times agreement of the EC, I established a Task Force on ECP for the Division. Dues headed by Devon King, chair of the Membership However, during Committee. The task force reported to the Board in January the fall and winter and proposed a motion to offer reduced dues to ECP’s. the officers and The Board of Directors voted to reduce ECP dues to $50 Board members and to enable ECP’s to join the Division or get refunds of the Division through the Division’s administrative offices. The task are also quite busy. In November we hold an all-day force consulted with our treasurer, Marsha McCary, and Executive Committee (EC) Meeting (with the presidents, APA staff to learn how we could identify ECP’s who are treasurer, secretary, and council representatives), and in Division members and to devise ways to advertise the January we hold a briefer EC Meeting and an all-day reduced rate to ECP’s who are not yet members of our Board of Directors Meeting. The Fall EC Meeting is a time Division. We believe this is an important step to ensure that when we review the year and anticipate new initiatives the latest generation of professionals will join our Division for the upcoming year. At the January Board Meeting and help it to thrive. we approve the annual budget and establish many of the Another concern expressed by Bill MacGillivray, agenda items that will carry us forward. I think you will our incoming President-elect, was the importance of be interested to learn about some of the issues we explored determining whether the committees and Board are at these meetings and the directions we have embarked representative of the many constituencies within the on to strengthen the Division and provide support for our Division, are providing an inviting environment to members. As you will see, the Board depends heavily on attract members of various diversities, and are providing many committees and task forces that work actively on our opportunities for them to move into governance positions. behalf throughout the year. These constituencies include members of various One of my concerns has been to attract early career ages, educational backgrounds, ethnicities, and sexual professionals to our Division and to provide programming orientation. To gather information on this issue and and social networking opportunities that will help them generate recommendations to the Board I appointed Bill to feel at home with us. We have an active Early Career head a Task Force on Diversity Issues and gathered a strong Professionals (ECP) Committee cochaired by Marilyn group to work with him representing the diversity within Charles and Winnie Eng. Yet they are handicapped by the our Division. Bill has had several meetings of the task fact that our Division dues are high. The jump from $25 for force and will be providing a report with recommendations graduate students to $95 for members who have completed at the August Board Meeting. (For more information, see Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2010 the report on this Task Force on page 38.) for under-served populations, etc. Furthermore, we can enry Seiden, chair of the Publications Committee, publicize these awards as a means to demonstrate the wide Hjoined us at both the November EC and the January range of activities informed by psychoanalytic thought. Board Meetings. In anticipating that Bill MacGillivray Dolores Morris, Nancy McWilliams, and I will be working would be stepping down as newsletter editor when he with Marsha to get this fund established. We hope you assumed the Division presidency, Henry had challenged will see the value of this effort and will help to make it all of us to think ahead to the sorts of publications that successful. would best serve our membership. He proposed that we divide the newsletter into two publications to reflect the he Task Force on Public Relations, chaired by Nina varied functions that the newsletter has filled under Bill’s TThomas, has been meeting throughout 2009. The task editorship. One, to expand on the intellectual dialogue that force has undertaken a major endeavor—to find ways to the newsletter provides through book reviews and thought put a new face on psychoanalysis to show the public the essays, would be met through a psychoanalytic review and value and opportunity that psychoanalytic treatment offers. would remain in print form published on a quarterly basis. The task force has come up with some wonderful ideas The other, to provide Division news and professional to involve all of us in this effort at the Spring Meeting in announcements in a timely fashion, would be met through Chicago. a new online newsletter to be “published” via our listserv The Task Force’s attention to public relations issues is already making a difference. For instance, Nina mentioned to us at the Board Meeting “Rhea Farberman, Director of APA Public Relations, that the definition of psychoanalysis and [has] prepared an APA press release highlighting the . psychoanalytic psychotherapy on the APA . . . evidence supporting psychoanalytic approaches to web site was woefully uninformative and out- psychotherapy. The press release will disseminate the of-date. After the Board Meeting we began an online dialogue among the entire Board points made about psychoanalytic psychotherapy to the to rewrite that definition. We developed a general public as well as to our fellow psychologists.” definition that gives the public an accurate and inviting picture of our form of psychotherapy. When we contacted APA staff to make this change on the on a bimonthly basis. With the approval of the Board at the APA web site our request was met with speedy results. January Meeting we agreed to divide the current newsletter Please check out the new definition in the section on into these two components and have a different editor for different approaches to psychotherapy at http://www/apa. each. Thus, beginning in mid-2010 the psychoanalytic org/topics/therapy/psychotherapy-approaches. review will be edited by David Lichtenstein and the e- Nina also took on another initiative to publicize newsletter will be edited by member-at-large Tamara the value of psychoanalytic psychotherapy to a broader McClintock Greenberg. We are very excited about these audience. When we learned that Jonathan Shedler’s new ventures and believe they will serve our members article on the efficacy of psychoanalytic psychotherapy well. In addition, of course, we will continue to publish our was going to be published by the American Psychologist journal Psychoanalytic Psychology under the editorship of Nina contacted Rhea Farberman, Director of APA Public Elliot Jurist. (For more information, see the Publications Relations, and alerted her to the significance of this article. Committee report on page 38.) Rhea prepared an APA press release highlighting the Marsha McCary, our treasurer, has not only article’s evidence supporting psychoanalytic approaches been carefully monitoring our income and expenditures to psychotherapy. The press release will disseminate the and ensuring that we build up our reserves. She has points made about psychoanalytic psychotherapy to the also thought about how our Division can encourage general public as well as to our fellow psychologists. You and support educational and treatment programs and can find links to the press release and the Shedler article on research that advance the profession of psychoanalysis. the Division 39 web site. She presented to the Board a preliminary proposal to In addition, shortly after our Board Meeting Dr. establish a separate fund for the Division of Psychoanalysis Melba Vasquez, the newly-elected APA President-elect, within the American Psychological Foundation. Once contacted us to say that she will be preparing a statement this fund is established, our members will be able to to support the APA resolution on the effectiveness of make contributions that will support psychoanalysis via psychotherapy. She has asked us to provide her with scholarships, research grants, early career awards, projects statements and citations demonstrating the effectiveness of

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3 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2010 psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. We are Task Force can be reconstituted with an updated charge pleased to have this opportunity to give her the information from both divisions. she needs to ensure that psychoanalysis is included in the In addition to all of the above topics, the resolution. Board addressed a major issue affecting our Division membership. A number of our members, many of whom t the January Meeting our Board adopted measures to have been active leaders in the Division, have been Aaddress the difficult conundrum of APA’s contract with withholding dues as part of the withholdAPAdues.org the Manchester Hyatt Hotel for the 2010 APA convention movement to protest APA’s positions on social justice in San Diego. In 2004 APA signed a contract with this hotel issues, especially APA’s original reluctance to ban to provide some of the accommodations and meeting rooms psychologist participation at detainee sites. After an APA for the convention. A contract like this provides substantial referendum made it clear that a majority of the voting APA penalties if APA reneges on its contractual obligations. In members supported the ban, APA passed a resolution to ban 2008 the hotel’s owner made a large personal contribution psychologist participation at those sites. However, many to support California’s Proposition 8 which banned same- of the withhold dues group believe that APA has not done sex marriage. Also, the hotel has been picketed by union enough to enforce the resolution or to support revision of organizations who want the opportunity to unionize the the APA Ethics Code sections that have been termed the hotel workers. In response to members who wanted APA Nuremberg defense. Some members have chosen to resign to break the contract, APA responded that the organization from APA rather than rejoin at the end of the two-year could not afford the penalties involved in cancelling the grace period that APA has provided. Our current Division contract. The APA leadership promised that they would bylaws require that psychologists who are qualified to be plan programming to highlight the social science research members of APA must be APA members in order to be on sexual orientation, the abilities of gay and lesbian members of our Division. We do have another category parents, and the benefits of marriage for all people. In spite of membership, affiliate member, which allows non-APA of these considerations, our board voted to request that members to continue to be part of the Division. Affiliate our Division events be scheduled at venues other than the members, however, are not allowed to vote or hold office. Manchester Hyatt. In addition, we directed our Council The Board has been asked to change our bylaws to enable Representatives to introduce a new business item at the those members who withdraw from APA to continue as February 2010 APA Council of Representatives Meeting full members of our Division. The Board agreed that we requiring that APA examine labor practices and social need to study this issue to see what the advantages and justice issues in developing contracts for APA meeting disadvantages would be to the Division if we change venues. our membership categories. To address this issue, I have Just prior to the January Meeting the Board formed a Task Force on Membership Issues chaired by received a final report from the Interdivisional (39/42) Larry Zelnick. We have written a charge for the task force Task Force on Managed Care. The cochairs, Ivan Miller and chosen its members. We anticipate that the task force and Gordon Herz, had previously written informative will be reporting back to us at the April Board Meeting. analyses of the impact of managed care on our practices As you can see, the Division Executive Committee, and had recommended a series of actions that the APA Board members, and task force and committee members are Practice Directorate could undertake on behalf of private busy people. I hope you have found this summary of some practitioners. Frank Goldberg, the Division’s Federal of their many activities informative. I encourage you to Advocacy Coordinator and a member of the Interdivisional send any comments about our plans to the newsletter editor Task Force, discussed the frustration that the task force so we can publish them for all to see. I also encourage you had experienced. He also distributed an essay he had to volunteer to help our various committees and task forces written that outlined how the APA Practice Directorate accomplish their important goals. could help the private practitioner. The disbanding of the task force requires that we develop new initiatives if we Reference are going to oversee and influence the efforts of the APA Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy, Practice Directorate in its support for private practice. The American Psychologist, 65: 98-109. Board discussed a number of options for moving forward, including communication with the leadership of the APA Practice Directorate and the establishment of a new Task Force on Private Practice for the Division. We will also consult with Division 42 to see whether the Interdivisional

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To the Editor Guidelines for Submitting Material Submissions, including references, need to read with considerable interest President Cresci’s remarks in the Summer be in APA style. E-mail your submission I2009 issue of Psychologist–Psychoanalyst. What really caught my attention in an attached Word or similar file to the was the part dealing with the more politically charged issues (e.g., social justice, Editor. If you do not have attached file capa- definitions of torture, appropriate clinical interventions with homosexuals, and bilities, mail the disc to the Editor. Hard multiculturalism). Although I have opinions about issues in all of these areas, I copies are not needed. Please write one or am concerned that Division 39 is rapidly moving toward becoming too much of two sentences about yourself for placement a political organization. at the end of the article and indicate what I recently co-authored a chapter with Dr. Robert E. Wubbolding, a address information you would like pub- nationally acclaimed reality therapist, in which we presented a critique of the lished. Submissions should be no longer current emphasis in counseling and counseling psychology on social justice than 2500 words. All materials are subject and multiculturalism (Thomas & Wubbolding, 2009). In this chapter, we also to editing at the discretion of the Editor. discussed the disturbing trend in the psychology profession, generally, toward Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed taking political positions in areas where there is scant psychological research by the authors are those of the authors and data to support one position versus another. do not reflect official policy of the Division These trends, which apply to psychoanalytic psychology as well, have of Psychoanalysis. Priority is given to articles the potential to affect the quality of research and scholarship in the field, the per- that are original and have not been submit- ceptions of the field by the general public, and the roles and functions of practic- ted for publication elsewhere. ing clinicians. For example, in many clinical settings, there has been a change in emphasis away from treating clients as individuals toward treating clients as Advertising members of one or another minority group. Also, instead of emphasizing client Psychologist-Psychoanalyst accepts advertising assets and opportunities, clients are regarded and often encouraged to think of from professional groups, educational and themselves as victims of a dominant and exploitative White culture. Moreover, training programs, publishers, etc. Ad copy persons in association leadership positions have frequently chosen to define em- must be in camera-ready form and correct phases within psychological specialties along racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual size. Rates and size requirements are: $400 preference lines instead of in terms of professional functions such as assessment full page 7.5” x 9"; $250 half page 7.5” x and diagnosis, psychotherapy, theory-building, and research. 4.5"; $150 quarter page 3” x 4 .5". Checks Quite frankly, I was attracted to psychoanalysis in the first place due should be made payable to Division 39 and to the lack of political correctness in its journals, books, and organizational mailed along with camera-ready copy. structures. With the exception of his disdain for Woodrow Wilson, Freud was basically apolitical. Instead, his primary interest was to advance the science and Deadlines practice of psychoanalysis. The purpose of analysis is to analyze, not proselytize Deadline for all submissions is April 1, July about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, social justice, gay rights, torture, the 1, October 1 and January 1. Issues gener- sanctity of multiculturalism, or whatever. Unfortunately, despite their good in- ally appear 5-6 weeks after deadline date. tentions, I believe some of the Division’s members are confusing their political views and interests with their professional roles as psychologist-psychoanalysts. Copyright Policy Except for announcements and event Ken Thomas, EdD schedules, material in Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Madison, WI is copyrighted and can only be reproduced with [email protected] permission of the Publications Committee.

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In Memoriam Lester Luborsky 1920 - 2010

ester Luborsky, We can ask no more from any leader in our field, Lemeritus professor and we will continue to use his work.” at the University of Pennsylvania, one of Sid Blatt notes, Lester was a giant in 20th century the founding fathers psychology and a very kind and decent person. His impact of psychotherapy on the field was enormous and he will be deeply missed by research, died at his his many friends.” home in Philadelphia His colleague, Paul Crits-Christoph wrote, on Oct 22, at the age of 89. He was one of the great, leading figures in the Lester first field of academic psychotherapy for half a century. thought of becoming Those among us who did not have a chance to a botanist, but when get to know him in person will remember him not he discovered a only as the author of the highly cited review of collection of Freud comparative studies of psychotherapies in which in his landlady’s attic, he changed his mind. He went off he applied the Dodo bird verdict “Everyone has to Duke University for his doctorate, becoming a clinical won and all must have prizes,” to the effectiveness psychologist who spent his lifetime career bringing two of various psychotherapies. Lester Luborsky also worlds together—psychotherapy and scientific research. developed the concept of the Core Conflictual He went on to the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kan., Relationship Theme (CCRT), and made countless where he did psychoanalytic training and research for 11 other valuable contributions to our field. years. He returned to Philadelphia in 1959, and was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania ever since. In 1973 and 1974, he was president of the Society for From 1974 to 1976, .he was the principal investigator of Psychotherapy Research. In 1973, he was a visiting “behavioral control methods for the treatment of essential professor at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in hypertension,” a $600,000 project funded in part by the Rome, and in 1981 and 1982 at Universität Ulm in West National Institute of Mental Health. From 1990 to 1998, Germany. From 1979 to 1982, he was a director for the he was the principal investigator for a $3 million project American Mental Health Foundation. In 2000, he was on funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a study of the international advisory board of the World Congress of psychosocial treatments for cocaine abuse. Psychotherapy. In terms of awards, 1999 was a special year. He developed methods to investigate what The American Psychological Foundation gave him its Gold makes psychotherapy work, and became a pioneer in Medal Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Applications psychotherapy research. He was a respected teacher of Psychology; and the American Psychoanalytic and mentor who, according to Dr. Dwight Evans, the Association gave him its Award for Distinguished chairman of the psychiatry department of the University of Psychoanalytic Theory and Research. Pennsylvania, “ had a tremendous impact on the field.” His books include Principles of Psychoanalytic According to Mardi Horowitz, Psychotherapy: A Manual for Supportive-Expressive Treatment (1984) and Who Will Benefit from Lester was a solid and persistent thinker and Psychotherapy? Predicting Therapeutic Outcomes (1988). researcher. He developed systems for case With Paul Crits-Christoph, he wrote Understanding formulation and also major outcome measures, Transference: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme such as the Health Sickness Rating Scale that made Method (1990). it (in modified form) into the DSM III. He was a He is survived by his three children: Lise, a lawyer, genius at taking clinical observations into doable Ellen, a psychologist, and Peter, a teacher and linguist; four formats, going superbly from qualitative definitions grandchildren, Miranda, Alex, David and Marie; and three to quantitative methods, without losing clinical great-grandchildren, Kora, Noah and Elijah. richness. He was a really nice guy who wrote lucidly and encouraged those who followed him.

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When Your Heart Cries Out, Being Carried Off . . . . A Poem by Eamon Grennan Henry M. Seiden, PhD, ABPP

ne of the intriguing parallels between psychoanalysis about the world, head up, eyes and ears open, noticing what Oand poetry is the process by which one gets from you notice and open to the (often stunning) meaning just muddle to meaning, from the smallest, swimming details of there waiting to thrust itself on you. experience to the big picture—and then back again with the Importantly, illumination is not an accident. It’s a detail clarified and illuminated as never before. matter of readiness. In one of its earlier iterations “Detail” Seen right (and said right), the detail implies the was called “Lesson.” The first part of the lesson here (for whole—no less than that the whole contains, organizes, poets and their readers and for analysts and their patients) is and orders the parts. Every percept, every gesture, every that an alert receptivity is a necessary condition of insight. word is part of a tapestry of meaning. This, of course, is Here’s what Grennan says in an interview about insight: a fundamental assumption and a working algorithm in psychoanalytic practice. It is no less in the practice of Most of us live in a sort of linear and horizontal poetry. way, but what lyric poems and poetry are trying to Here is a poem by a contemporary poet, Eamon do is . . . live in a vertical way down the shaft of Grennan, that speaks to that awareness. Grennan is an one of those single horizontal moments . . . Another Irish citizen and divides his time between Ireland and image may be dowsing for water—you walk this country. He’s a professor at Vassar, widely published around the landscape and then the willow wand on both sides of the Atlantic and the winner of many dips and you say, dig here! And, you find water. distinguished poetry prizes. The poem is called “Detail” and is from his recent volume Still Life With Waterfall (2002). Of course finding (or stumbling on, or for that matter

falling into) metaphorical water, that is to say, finding I was watching a robin fly after a finch—the smaller truth, requires art. The world doesn’t necessarily give chirping with excitement, the bigger, its breast up its secrets so easily. Here’s what Grennan has to say blazing, silent in “Up Against It” another poem in the same collection. in light-winged earnest chase—when, out of nowhere He contemplates the bees that have drifted into his house over the chimneys and the shivering front gardens, and “cannot understand the window they buzz and buzz flashes a sparrowhawk headlong, a light brown burn against.” They “cannot fathom how the air has hardened scorching the air from which it simply plucks and the world they know with their eyes keeps out of reach like a ripe fruit the stopped robin, whose two or three . . . They can only go on making the one sound that tethers cheeps of terminal surprise twinkle in the silence their pure electric fury to what’s impossible.” closing over the empty street when the birds have So it is with us he must mean: so often we bumble gone around in an essential stupidity—like the uncomprehending about their business, and I began to understand bees, furious in their ignorance and desire. how a poem can happen: you have your eye on a And the stakes are high. The search for truth may small well start out as a sweet contemplation of life on a sunny elusive detail, pursuing its music, when a terrible day. But the matter itself is grave. The robin’s surprise is truth terminal. The observer’s illumination is heart stopping. strikes and your heart cries out, being carried off. The truth that strikes us may be joyous for being true but

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8 Psychoanalytic Books PSYCHOANALYTIC BOOKS: REVIEWS AND DISCUSSION Psychoanalysis at the Margins, by Paul Stepansky. New York: Other Press, 2009; 357 pp., $39.00. Karen J. Maroda, PhD, ABPP sychoanalysis at the Margins provides a fascinating past three decades; historically, the two trends are Pread for all those with a passion for psychoanalysis. intertwined. (p. xvii) Author Paul Stepansky, the former editorial director of The Analytic Press, writes with authority, knowledge and As a psychoanalytic editor and publisher, he offers a an obsession for historical detail. Not simply a history of unique perspective on how psychoanalytic theorists who psychoanalysis, his book also provides an in-depth critique overly-specialize have actually shrunk the market for of the fall of psychoanalysis and persuasively argues that psychoanalytic books by creating smaller and smaller psychoanalysis must embrace its marginalized status if it is cadres of book buyers who will only read books written to survive. by members of their in-group. Rather than writing for the His major theme is that we have, in fact, shot more general analytic audience that existed 20 or 30 years ourselves in the foot by creating so ago, authors and book buyers tend to many splinter groups, each with their write and read only those works by own journal, and often with great and for members of relatively small animosity toward those who think theoretical camps. From Stepanksy’s differently. He points out that not point of view, this trend contributed only has psychoanalysis not built to the downfall of psychoanalytic on the “common ground” discussed publishing. With smaller and smaller by Wallerstein twenty years ago, sales for each new psychoanalytic but rather has become increasingly book, many of them losing money, intolerant of psychoanalytic colleagues publishers first limited, then dropped, who hold different views. (He cites the their analytic catalogue altogether. unfortunate incident in the pages of He mentions several of the books Psychoanalytic Psychology that began that sold well for The Analytic Press with Jon Mills’ critique of Stephen in the 1990s, but also notes that the Mitchell’s views and descended into figures paled in comparison to those repetitive personal attacks. He is who were analytic but wrote for a quick to add that he takes no sides more general audience, like Paul in this dispute.) He describes Arnold Wachtel and Nancy McWilliams, who Richards as someone who encourages have sold tens of thousands of books dialogue with those who are not for Guilford Press. These authors are Contemporary Freudians like himself, the exceptions, however. Reaching primarily for the purpose of winning out and presenting analytic ideas to them over to the views held by his those not already in the fold has not group. been popular in the analytic world. Stepansky is clearly not afraid to speak his mind, Stepansky rightly notes that we have not accepted which I admire. I also agree with his perception that craft status and handed down craft knowledge for future psychoanalytic culture is generally stuck, waiting to be generations of therapists, nor have we integrated our restored to its former glory (which he says will never sophisticated theoretical ideas—either of which might happen), while shamelessly fighting over what is left of the have carved out a viable position for us. As a result, pie. He points out that our actual behavior undermines our psychoanalysis becomes more marginalized by the day. He efforts toward any new ascendancy. presents several possible outcomes if we continue down this path. But in the end he appears to be recommending My argument is that in America the internal a combination of reconciliation among psychoanalytic fractionation of psychoanalysis into rivalrous and thinkers, as well as a willingness to integrate even sect-like groupings and the marginalization psychoanalytic ideas into the mainstream, particularly with of the field have proceeded in tandem over the the burgeoning neuroscience research, which has confirmed

9 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2010 many basic psychoanalytic ideas. He says, become more ecumenical and write with less jargon, I do not recall ever hearing about it. Rather, they seemed to bite I myself hope that researchers will continue the bullet and cut staff instead. It is my understanding that to delineate the interrelationships between most analytic publishers have not provided professional psychoanalysis and neuroscience, because I believe edits for their books in decades, which eroded their quality. this integrative approach holds the greatest promise Publishing fewer books, but editing them well, might have of bringing psychoanalysis into the scientific raised the bar, and the audience, for psychoanalytic books. mainstream in a manner that comprehends Finally, is it realistic to think that psychoanalytic and grants dignity to nonanalytic mechanisms publishers were not influenced by the personal conflicts of therapeutic action in realms as disparate as and political maneuvering within the psychoanalytic psychotropic mediation and cognitive-behavioral community that Stepansky documents? How many book interventions. (p. 218) contracts were signed based on the recommendations of powerful analysts who used them to reward the faithful? I believe Paul Stepansky has much to offer psychoanalysis And wasn’t it easier for analytic publishers to accept these in this volume and I personally agree with most of what he recommendations rather than to actively scour the meetings has to say, which naturally lends itself to a more positive and journal articles looking for new talent with no power review. (By way of disclosure, even though I published base? (I will never forget giving a paper at a Division 39 with The Analytic Press and am mentioned briefly in meeting as a relative unknown and being offered a book the volume with regard to the contract for The Power of sales of my books, my contact “Paul Stepansky has written a powerful, Countertransference by a Wiley with Paul Stepansky over the well-written and stimulating history of editor from the United Kingdom years was limited to discussing the rise and fall of psychoanalysis and who was doing just that.) publishing and I have no Paul Stepansky has personal relationship with him.) psychoanalytic publishing that both written a powerful, well-written In spite of my general informs us and forces us to look at our and stimulating history of the agreement with his views, I own narcissism and lack of vision.” rise and fall of psychoanalysis think it only fair to point out and psychoanalytic publishing some of the weaknesses in his arguments and the manner that both informs us and forces us to look at our own in which the book was written. Stepansky is a scholar who narcissism and lack of vision. Even though I agree with his has written previously on the history of surgery and who is conclusions, my own experience has led me to believe that meticulous in his research. I think the inclusion of so much stopping the jockeying for power and intolerance of each medical history, along with voluminous footnotes, will other’s points of view, while demonstrating a willingness present a hurdle to some readers and seem too digressive. to integrate our work with other disciplines, is not the For others who share his passion for historical detail, it will trajectory we are on. It remains to be seen whether we no doubt provide a welcome opportunity to gain insight can embrace Stepansky’s call to accept our marginalized into how psychoanalysis specialized in an idiosyncratic position and create a vibrant and valued presence for way that differed greatly from medical specialization. He analytic ideas. contrasts the success of medical specialization, including its books and journals, with the failure of psychoanalytic References specialization, making a compelling argument for how Maroda, K. (1991). The power of countertransference: and why this occurred. I think this argument is relevant to Innovations in analytic technique. Chichester, UK: Wiley. his thesis, but I question whether so much detail about the Mills, J. (2005). A critique of relational psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 22:2, 155-188. medical world was necessary. What was noticeably absent from Dr. Stepansky’s Karen Maroda analysis of the fall of psychoanalysis, specifically as it [email protected] relates to psychoanalytic publishing, was the role played by psychoanalytic publishers themselves. It seems unlikely that they had no hand in decades of bad decisions about the direction of psychoanalytic publishing. Certainly they were more aware than anyone else of the increasingly small audiences and frequent financial failures of psychoanalytic books. If they were exhorting psychoanalytic writers to

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Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy, by Paul Wachtel. New York: Guilford Press, 2008; 338 pp., $40.00. Caleb J. Siefert, PhD s is typical of a Paul Wachtel book, Relational Theory reviews why he has refined and elaborated on previous Aand the Practice of Psychotherapy is expertly written, theoretical executions by moving from cyclical- broad in scope, well suited for both advanced and novice psychodynamics to a model that more explicitly includes practitioners alike, and a pleasure to read. Readers from the present context, the cyclical-contextual model. a range of theoretical orientations will find themselves While the latter portions of the book have an stimulated to think in new ways and at times will be integrationist feel and include discussion of how some challenged to reconsider some cherished ideas. The book behavioral techniques (i.e., exposure) may be useful is a three part act with the first focusing on the history in psychotherapy, Wachtel’s relational model leads the of relational theory, the second on Wachtel’s review and way throughout the book. Thus, the use of therapeutic refinement of his own theories, and the third emphasizing techniques is always housed in a larger understanding clinical applicability of this theory of the individual, the nature of and integrates technical interventions therapeutic relationship, and from a range of theoretical the context the person finds orientations. The book in full provides themselves in (in and outside of the the reader with a coherent history of therapist’s office). By housing such relational thought in psychoanalysis. interventions within his theoretical This history then serves as the scope, Wachtel simultaneously backdrop and starting point for speaks to clinicians of multiple understanding both Wachtel’s current therapeutic orientations emphasizing thinking about individuals and the importance of striking a balance therapy. Finally, as in previous books between utilizing an overarching by Wachtel, he finds ways to make model to guide therapy while his insights practically important and continuing to consider a wide range relevant to practicing therapists by of technical interventions. Consistent focusing on their implications for a with the practicality of his thought, range of important therapeutic issues, Wachtel is careful to develop a such as understanding enactments and clearly two-person model that issues associated with therapists’ self- avoids epistemological nihilism. For disclosure. example, Early in the book, on page As stated previously, Wachtel 24, he notes “We may not be able to has successfully crammed a multitude perceive the other “objectively,” but of topics into this book. He reviews neither are our perceptions simply the history of relational thinking arbitrary.” By avoiding the extremes and locates it within the larger body of the progression of and polarizations throughout the book, Wachtel manages psychoanalytic thought. He takes the reader through the to embrace the complexity of the therapeutic situation journey from a one-person to two-person model of viewing (and the role of the patient and therapist in it), while also people and how this informs what is done in psychotherapy. providing practical guidance for developing understanding Simultaneously, he acknowledges that there is a great deal with patients that are “good enough.” of heterogeneity among relational theorists and thinkers The book continues to embrace a number of that has often contributed to confusion and a lack of clarity psychoanalytic conceptualizations emphasizing the role of in the relational community. As such, he painstakingly the past and the unconscious in patients present day lives, attempts to clearly articulate his model and way of thinking the significance of the therapeutic relationship, and the role regarding individuals, the contexts in which they exist, the of therapeutic exploration in the process of change. At the nature of psychotherapy, and clinical technique. By locating same time, Wachtel challenges psychoanalytic thinkers to his own thinking and past theorizing within the broader go further still. For example, he argues for the importance history of relational thought he logically and systematically of using psychoanalytic techniques and understandings

11 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2010 to further explore and consider “the excluded middle,” to “what do you say and why” may be better served by referring to middle childhood and early adulthood. He considering previous books by Wachtel (e.g., Therapeutic is no less stringent in challenging his own theory and Communications). These criticisms are minor at best and thinking, changing the name of his model from cyclical the overall book is quite an accomplishment. The structural psychodynamics to the cyclical-contextual model, to features of the book (e.g., the layout; production) are account for the contextual influence on individuals’ lives strong and the book is reasonably priced. I would highly and how aspects of lived situations impact the expression recommend this book to others and believe that serious of dynamic states. practitioners of psychotherapy, thinkers about personality, This book is likely to find a broad audience as and students of psychoanalysis will all be equally pleased the book has a strong integrationist feel. Throughout the and stimulated by this book. Wachtel is to be commended book, concepts and research from domains outside of again for matching depth of insight and thought with psychoanalysis have been integrated with psychoanalytic practical guidance rendering the book useful and thought concepts. This will likely increase the appeal of the book provoking for seasoned and novice practitioners across to a broader audience. The book’s scope, review of the theoretical orientations. history and changes of how patients are conceptualized in psychoanalysis, the clarity of the writing, and the References integration of concepts from outside psychoanalysis, makes Wachtel, P. L. (1987). Action and insight. New York: Guilford this book the text for individuals unfamiliar with relational Press. theory or psychoanalytic models for therapy who want to Wachtel, P. L. (1993). Therapeutic communication. New York: Guilford Press. learn more. One has to strain to find weaknesses with this book. Caleb Siefert Perhaps, the only weakness to be highlighted in that readers [email protected] may feel pulled in a multitude of directions over the course of their reading. Though replete with case illustrations and clearly stated therapeutic implications, readers looking for a book that is more instructive and hands on with regard

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Neither Victim Nor Survivor: Thinking Toward a New Humanity, by Marilyn Nissim-Sabat. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2009, pp. 207. $65.00. Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP

arilyn Nissim-Sabat is that rare breed of intellectual consciousness that combats ideology with the professed goal Mwho is also a mental health practitioner and a of achieving a more liberated, humane society. committed humanist. And she authentically practices what What this requires of its citizens is to become she preaches. She enjoyed a long career as an academic, aware of and revolutionarily oppose the oppressive forces is professor emeritus of philosophy, received her graduate of capitalism (masquerading under the guise of democracy), degree in social work, is a practicing psychoanalytic institutional racism, misogyny, cultural objectification of psychotherapist, and is devoted to promulgating concrete women, and victim blaming that sustains such oppressive social change through political activism. Her recent book, forces by falsely legitimizing social injustices based Neither Victim Nor Survivor, spans a broad array of many on entrenched ideologies that justify people’s motives topics on the psychology of victimization, gender, class, and actions, including the tendency toward self-blame and racial inequity, feminist critiques of psychoanalysis that is concomitant with many social problems and and science, and the value of psychopathology. But even in the phenomenology for the human and case of certain pathologies, such behavioural sciences. as addictions, she maintains that Professor Nissim-Sabat individuals are ultimately free to is a true existentialist in the make their own choices, and that phenomenological tradition: she views arguments from a lack of self- all people as (potentially) free and control or weakness of will (akrasia) responsible for choosing how to live, are defensive excuses designed to act, and be regardless of one’s social dehumanize people by imposing circumstances or personal diversity. renunciation of responsibility and She has no patience for those who displacement of the notion of free abnegate personal responsibility, will. Indeed, she argues that the including the failure to pursue social attribution of weakness of will is an justice or confront political and example of victim blaming. cultural oppression. She is particularly Although the thread that sensitive to those who suffer from runs through the book centers on victimhood, whether externally understanding the psychodynamics impugned by others or self-imposed. of victim blaming, this book really She wants society, whose members speaks to the broader voice of blame each other for their personal advocating for a radical philosophy and collective woes and who also of humanism based on a radical fall prey to self-blame, to abandon optimism that challenges the social the victim–survivor binary, which complacency and institutional she believes is a reified abstraction structures that oppress disenfranchised that generates narrow self-interest and apathy, and is the groups and peoples. The new humanity she envisions would anathema known as false consciousness. She states: “the be characterized by transcendence and wholeness that is propaganda in a society like ours that impels us to blame both individually realized and socially fostered where there victims, ourselves and others, is a function of the profound ideally would be no more victims and no more survivors, a inhumanity of the socioeconomic system in which we world in which it is acknowledged that mere survival does are embedded, a system that must be changed through a not constitute a human life. liberatory praxis” (p. 189). Here Nissim-Sabat espouses a The breadth of essays in this book are diverse and neo-Marxist position of exposing and opposing oppression interdisciplinary, covering many terrains that overlap with attributed to capitalistic society that undermines the the fields of critical race theory, phenomenology, socialism, enactment and very notion of freedom itself. She appeals to feminist epistemology, literary theory, moral philosophy, a greater valuation process based on a socialist–humanist and, of course, psychoanalysis. Because readers of this 13 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2010 newsletter are likely to be most interested in her critique of only make interpretations and convey meaning through its psychoanalysis, it is to this that I will turn my attention. own relations as immediately experienced in the lifeworld There are five chapters that specifically address (Lebenswelt). Here there is no distinction or separation of a critique of psychoanalytic theory, including one subject from object, for this contrast is united. on the inherent misogyny in Freud’s classical views Although there is a complicated set of relationships on Oedipalization and female moral development, between science and philosophy, Husserl advocates for a psychoanalysis and phenomenology, addictions and foundational role phenomenology plays in the constitution self psychology, raciation in psychiatry, and to a lesser of any science, indeed, in the possibility for there to be degree, a commentary on Lacan’s Antigone, as well as an any science at all, including psychoanalysis. In order interpretation of Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved. One of to achieve its task, this requires philosophy to perform the major contributions of Professor Nissim-Sabat’s book is a certain reduction or act of withdrawal from the usual her appealing and cogent series of arguments for adopting assertions we make about what exists or does not exist Husserlian phenomenology as the foundation of a new in the world. The result of this reduction, suspension of psychoanalytic science that displaces the positivism of a judgment, or bracketing is to reveal the world as a correlate natural science framework and the potential relativism and of consciousness. In fact, it is just such a reduction or ποχή subjectivism inherent in a purely hermeneutical approach to (epoché ) that makes phenomenology a descriptive science, psychoanalytic inquiry. the science of pure consciousness as such. Below, I will Given that contemporary psychoanalysis has discuss the implications of the phenomenological notion of largely adopted the postmodern turn and has found many pure consciousness vis-à-vis the psychoanalytic notion of traditions within continental philosophy appealing for the unconscious. rethinking psychoanalytic theory, it is surprising that Nissim-Sabat carefully prepares her arguments phenomenology has not been given more attention. by pointing out the pitfalls of naturalism, as well as Nissim-Sabat fills that gap and provides the first sustained the advantages of phenomenology over hermeneutics. argument for why the field should adopt a Husserlian According to Nissim-Sabat, the natural science attitude perspective. Although proponents of phenomenology are is full of unwarranted presuppositions about what is real, diverse in theoretical scope and focus, and are by no means objective, universal, absolute, unchanging, and causally homogenous, phenomenology may be said to be first and deterministic, which ultimately devolves into the bane foremost concerned with the process of experience and how of material reduction. I particularly found instructive her phenomena are disclosed and appear to the human subject categorization of scientism as adhering to a) positivism via an analysis and description of consciousness. Husserl and naturalism, where science is seen as the only source of in particular, and phenomenologists in general, typically knowledge; b) belief in a mechanistic “billiard-ball model” admit to a radical difference between the “natural” and of causation following fixed universal laws; c) affirmation “philosophical” attitudes, the latter challenging scientific that material and efficient ontological explanations are a epistemology. While natural science makes metaphysical sufficient condition for understanding process and reality, assumptions about how things really are in themselves, hence privileging d) realism and e) a correspondence including discovering objective laws and unchanging theory of truth, which ultimately have their substance and “truth,” phenomenology suspends its ontological existence in matter; and belief that f) one can have objective commitments in favor of an epistemological stance that knowledge about the world independent of subjectivity takes concrete human subjectivity and experience as the or consciousness (p. 44). Although one may object to her proper objects of science. For Husserl, this is accomplished broad generalizations to science in general, and Freudian by a radical repositioning of our methodological practices psychoanalysis in particular, she very eloquently shows that does not privilege the natural science attitude, but how these attitudes have formed an inedible foothold in the rather displaces such an attitude through a purely formal theoretical corpus that underlies scientism and naturalized investigation into the structures and disclosedness of views of epistemology, and that furthermore prejudices subjectivity. Rather than assume the existence of natural science in its various investigations and methodologies. objects independent of consciousness, Husserl, following Equally interesting is her analysis of hermeneutics, Kant and the German Idealists, focuses on how meanings which is frequently associated with a phenomenological and their relations, rather than things, are constituted via perspective, and has been welcomed by many contemporary transcendental subjectivity. Unlike the natural scientific psychoanalytic theorists. Despite the fact that hermeneutics attitude that avouches an unadulterated realism that can collapses the subject–object divide, sees subjectivity be observed and measured, the phenomenological subject as necessary to all interpretations, and generally holds is never dislocated from its object of study and hence can an anti-scientific posture, Nissim-Sabat argues that it is

14 Psychoanalytic Books ultimately subject to relativism because of its disavowal “no,” because she is merely advocating for the suspension of universals, and hence rejection of the possibility of any of judgments regarding the ultimate ontology of the science of interpretation. Another reason, I might add, is world, not that there is a denial of Being per se; only that, that hermeneutics lacks a methodological criterion for following Kant, the ultimate nature of the world is in itself which interpretation and meaning are conveyed, hence it unknowable. In fact the phenomenological attitude is what cannot escape the circularity of collapsing into a radical is needed in any viable theory and method of scientificity. subjectivism. Here, she argues, a phenomenological science becomes a more palatable alternative that If psychoanalysis does adopt Husserl’s insulates psychoanalysis from positivism and relativism. phenomenological method, will it have to abandon By dismissing the natural science standpoint, or rather, the belief in an unconscious ontology, and scientism, natural science’s own self-misinterpretation, unconscious processes in general, like the ubiquity she is also able to reconfigure and reincorporate the of transference and defense, which are the historical hermeneutic tradition within a proper phenomenological pillars of psychoanalytic knowledge? attitude that governs our sensibilities regarding interpretive theory and practice. Here our object of concern should be Does Husserl himself make certain ontological the lifeworld and all its variations, which is revealed to commitments when he avers the existence of a consciousness through the phenomenological reduction, transcendental ego that pre-reflectively performs the acts hence the systematic bracketing or voluntary suspension of of epoché as analysis of subjectivity qua subjectivity, all ontological commitments. This disciplined suspension something Sartre outright rejected? Does Husserl’s system promises to disclose the psychic field of subjectivity (like Sartre’s) by necessity reject in toto the notion of “as a self-sufficient sphere, and thus as a proper object unconscious operations, or can unconscious mentation of scientific investigation” (p. 63). By reconceiving be explained within the structures of subjectivity? If, by psychoanalysis as a nonnatural science that places the definition, phenomenology is a science of consciousness, realm of the psychic as the proper core of psychoanalytic this would seem to eclipse any possibility of apprehending investigations, she hopes to open up an attractive space for or knowing unconscious activity because it is not accessible psychoanalysis to flourish as a philosophical science of to conscious experience; and even if it was, it would betray subjectivity. And she admirably accomplishes this under the the phenomenological attitude by positing ontological rubric of freedom and humanism, which, as I interpret her, processes beneath (or behind) the veil of consciousness. is her main philosophical and moral pursuit. But is there any possibility of observing subjectivity that What would the adoption of the phenomenological could be conceived as the manifestation or instantiation method entail for psychoanalysis? We would have to set of unconscious structure? Husserl rarely spoke of the aside our theoretical biases and intellectual prejudices unconscious in his writings, however, a cryptic feature about our preferred orientations and simply observe mental of his analysis of the ego entails what he refers to as phenomena as it shines forth or appears. I could envision a “passive synthesis” or “passive constitution,” which technical process where this would be instructive and even explains the formal mediating and unifying operations of complementary to the free associative method, however, it the transcendental ego, what I would call an unconscious would be very challenging for most of us to set aside our agentic organization responsible for all productions of preferred conceptual frameworks, let alone our ontological consciousness. Although he did not adequately emphasize worldviews that we import into every subjective act of passive synthesis as the domain of the unconscious, here experiencing. But is this not what science should aspire we may not inappropriately extend Husserl’s method to a toward when it makes its observations, engages in data proper study of unconscious phenomenology. collection, and performs statistical analyses? Is it not Nissim-Sabat is on the leading edge of contemporary supposed to be neutral, precise, and unburdened by theoretic psychoanalytic thinking. Not only does she offer a refreshing bias when observing and classifying phenomena? psychoanalytic humanism grounded in phenomenological But if we adopt the phenomenological stance, science, she is an erudite, original, and impressive scholar what becomes of ontology? When asked to suspend all who genuinely embodies the principles she espouses by ontological commitments, is Nissim-Sabat asking us to do daring to sound the rally cry of radical philosophy for social something that we are incapable of doing (at least from a liberation. Psychoanalysis has everything to gain from practical standpoint) by virtue of the fact that every human philosophical fortification, and we should all take seriously action is prefaced and premised on ontological assumptions the unique contributions she has to offer. we import (especially unconsciously) in our subjective Jon Mills engagement with the world and reality? Here she would say [email protected] 15 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2010

Envy, Entitlement, Revenge and Negativity. Edited by Robert C. Lane and Associates. Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2007; 404 pp., $40.00. A Developmental Perspective on the Life Cycle and Treatment Process, edited by Robert C. Lane. Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2008; 468 pp., $40.00. Saralea Chazan, PhD

n these two volumes Robert Lane has preserved his motive and a second on the negative therapeutic reaction Iwritings in an accessible form for future students and contain extensive literature reviews of the topic as well researchers. It is notable that many of the articles were as clinical cases. The excellent bibliographies afford the written in tandem with colleagues, many of whom were reader a resource for further reading. among his supervisees. I was fortunate to have experienced The second volume, as indicated in the title, utilizes an apprenticeship under his guidance that encouraged me developmental sequence as a means of organization. to not only think about the process of treatment, but also to The first section takes note of issues arising during the place my observations within a larger frame of theory and therapeutic hour, including setting of fees, management of past literature on the subject. We now acting-out and self-disclosure, and have available to us a collection of the understanding of silence as a articles that distill the experience of communication. These topics are all those who were mentored in this very immediately relevant to the practice special way by Robert Lane. of psychotherapy. Following this are The volume Envy, sections on childhood, adolescence Entitlement, Revenge and Negativity, and adulthood. Lane discusses describes the various forms of cognitive ego psychology and the impediments to the clinical process psychotherapy of learning disorders. encountered in treatment. The first Attention deficit disorder, anorexia, eight chapters are an orientation early infancy as discussed by Daniel to various pathologies and their Stern, panic and terror are other symptoms. Reflecting an object topics addressed in articles included relations perspective are chapters on in this section. The developmental identity confusion, symbols of terror, sequence culminates in a discussion anorexia, the effects of loss and the of clinical procedures including dynamics of countertransference. testing, supervision and termination. The chapters that follow describe the What emerges for the reader appearance of negative affect as a is a full narrative of a professional dominant feature of the therapeutic life of commitment to and immersion process. These difficulties are to be in scholarship, teaching and the anticipated as the patient confronts clinical process. Lane is clearly one challenges of relationship in a defensive, maladaptive of those individuals who has made significant contributions manner. not only to the emergence of his profession, but who An article written in 1984 entitled “The Wish Not also participates currently in an active way in the issues to Know: A Fool Cannot be Blamed for his Actions” is challenging his profession. Spanning a full spectrum of especially revealing. The defensive need of the child to interests from ego psychology to object relations theory remain “not knowing” is discussed, along with a review to attachment theory, he is able to sustain his efforts and of the subject in view of family dynamics. The child not contributions to the field. Thank you Robert Lane! knowing can be understood as both collusion with parental wishes to preserve family secrets, and as a strategy to Saralea Chazan cope with the intrusive and destructive parent upon whom [email protected] the child is dependent. Clinical cases are cited as well as historical examples. Two articles, one on the revenge

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The Embedded Self An Integrative Psychodynamic and Systemic Perspective on Couples and Family Therapy (Second Edition), by Mary-Joan Gerson. New York: Routledge, 2009; 304 pp., $35.95. Michael Zentman, PhD

In psychoanalysis we imagine new selves; the transformation from linear psychoanalytic to circular in family therapy we imagine new relationships. systemic thinking is not an effortless journey. Family Mary-Joan Gerson systems theory and practice is not just an additional way of perceiving individuals, couples and family units; it is an oward the end of her thoughtful and accessible book all-together different way of approaching interpersonal and Ton the integration of psychodynamic and systemic intrapersonal phenomenon. In training clinicians to work theory and practice Mary-Joan Gerson notes that Salvador systemically I have found that this paradigm shift is not an Minuchin was introduced to the participant–observational easy one to master. Dr. Gerson notes, model when he was a candidate at the William Alanson White Institute and that he subsequently adapted this For the analyst, the issues that arise in making model to his theory of Structural Family Therapy. This this shift include everything reminded me of an experience from soup to nuts in the that I as an extern at the Family psychoanalytic canon. The Therapy Training Program of the contours of the treatment Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. relationship are different, issues While waiting to begin supervision of neutrality and engagement in Minuchin’s office, I noticed a copy take on different parameters, of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in a the tracking of transference and slightly ajar desk drawer, a discovery countertransference diminishes I filed away in my mind. I was, radically, and the inevitability of after all, learning systemic family enactment in treatment takes on therapy and psychoanalytic thought an entirely different coloration. did not have a place there. In fact, Of these shifts, the diminishment Minuchin eschewed psychoanalytic in attention to transference theory as did other systemic theorists and countertransference, the at the time. The mere mention of conceptual anchors of the “psychoanalysis” would place you psychoanalytic relationship, squarely in the cross hairs of Betty is the most unsettling for the Carter’s stern over-her-glasses frown psychoanalyst. (p. 207) of incredulity, which happened more than once in her class. Years There are other differences between later, after completing training in systemic and psychoanalytic practice psychoanalysis, I reflected on that that may contribute to an analyst’s moment when disparate theories discomfort. Dr. Gerson points out, seemed to be colliding: what Minuchin was teaching and “the family therapist . . . is not focused on capturing what he was reading seemed irreconcilable. Mary-Joan dynamics in well-honed, symbolically drenched verbal Gerson believes, and effectively demonstrates, otherwise. communication, as the analyst is. Rather, family or couples Dr. Gerson begins her book with the following therapists wedge into the relationship system of the family observation: “Families . . . are what psychoanalysts spend and, like a symbiote, attempt to alter it from within” (p. a great deal of time hearing about. And yet how one hears 177). Systemic therapists become part of a family system this material will be the question” (p. 1) . How you hear and create change through proximity—by being effected about families and couple relationships will not be the same by and effecting family rules. They feel the push and pull, after reading this book and your clinical perspective, if not the tug and shove of the family in order to know their your actual approach to treatment, will be transformed. But experience and to be able to introduce novelty into the

17 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2010 system, to push them toward greater complexity. Gerson makes a case for having a unique theory of practice A therapist’s use-of-self as an active agent when navigating the complex terrain of family and couples of change is as important as an awareness of therapy: countertransference. To make this point Dr. Gerson quotes E.A. Levinson: “Psychoanalysis is about what is said about For those couples who come to see us basically what is done” (p. 177), and then adds: “…family therapy well related, but stuck in a particular life transition, involves what is done about what is said” (p. 179). In a a psychodynamically oriented exploration clinical vignette demonstrating this difference (p. 200) of resentments and disappointments will be Gerson utilizes guided imagery and family sculpting with a sufficiently helpful. But for those couples mired couple and tells one partner what to do in order to achieve a in chronic and redundant cycles of attack and particular outcome, to have the couple experience change: counterattack, we, as therapists, are often trying to not just talk about it but to experience it viscerally and tilt windmills in quixotic fashion when we invite in three dimensions. Therapist activity may be one of the intensified self and other examination. (p. 9) most challenging tactical differences between systemic and psychoanalytic practice; and by including this vignette I would add that for those couples caught in rigid and Gerson gives analysts permission to use themselves as volatile patterns of relating, the premature encouragement instruments for effecting change. of intensive self examination and relationship processing On a purely nuts-and-bolts level Dr. Gerson offers can be counter-productive and, at times, treatment an excellent and concise historical overview of the field disruptive. Couples in states of high distress cannot tolerate of family therapy including capsule biographies of key the vulnerability required to be reflective, empathic and contributors and summaries of their theoretical orientations. compassionate. She also provides a description of techniques pertaining Dr. Gerson notes that, “…we often simply feel to diagnosis, assessment, and various interventions. Two increasingly anxious and less focused without a clear theoretical concepts that are included, the family life cycle theoretical perspective underlying our participation” (p. and genograms, are rooted in Bowenian theory and provide 24). She then provides a caveat: an excellent bridge between systemic and psychoanalytic praxis. Bowen’s transgenerational model, diagrammatically In an effort to be helpful without rooting in a represented in genograms, and Carter and McGoldrick’s systemic frame and to avoid feeling uncomfortably theory of the family life cycle provide a comfortable link vulnerable to treatment failure, analysts reenter between these two treatment approaches. The author makes the analytic frame and often make individual this apparent in the following observation: assessments and prematurely recommend individual therapy. There is a pull to feeling The attention to detail that goes with genogram more sympathetic to the more self-reflective, construction, like a carefully conducted factual self-expressive (though not necessarily the more inquiry, potentially deconstructs the known and the systemically virtuous) partner in a couple. In defensively palatable, revealing loose threads or even contrast, working within a frame of systemic threadbare areas of experience. It is quite astonishing thinking, of interlocking dynamics, bolsters how just-out-of-awareness experience bubbles up therapeutic stamina and vitality. (p. 211) during certain genogram constructions in a way that invites psychoanalytic explanation. (p. 173) When we treat families and couples without a systemic theory of practice it can be difficult to respond effectively Intrapsychic dynamics as well as inter-generational to the formidable influence of homeostatic forces that relationship patterns are revealed in the details of each resist change. When we have a map, we have something partner’s family of origin history as it is examined, to turn to if we lose our way; it helps us to determine perhaps for the first time, through the process of creating where we took a wrong turn and how to get ourselves back a genogram. The family life cycle, a model that identifies on track. Dr. Gerson examines several concepts through significant social, emotional and relationship milestones the dual lenses of psychoanalytic and systemic theory. that require mastery in order to avoid family disharmony, A discussion of systemic balance expands the meaning is well-suited for clinicians subscribing to traditional of traditional and contemporary psychoanalytic views psychoanalytic views of individual development. of neutrality: “Adopting a systemic view when working In addition to addressing several shared theoretical with a couple or family enhances one’s ability to stay both elements of psychodynamic and systemic treatment Dr. balanced and non-collusive with whatever dysfunction is

18 Psychoanalytic Books present in the room” (p. 212). The alternative of adhering both a psychoanalyst and systems therapist I have found to a linear perspective results in, “…analysts who try to enactments to be vital aspects of treatment. Gerson shares grasp individual psychologies and individual transferences this perspective stating that, “Therapeutic enactments often feel(ing) uncomfortably lopsided in their working generate and affirm new possibilities of experience” (p. alliance” (p. 212). The ability to maintain a balanced stance 198). She notes that in recent psychoanalytic literature, in relation to both partners is fundamental to effective “Many analysts are now valuing the dramatization of couple therapy. The inability to do so, in my experience, conflict and the influence of therapeutic action, even when contributes to treatment failures, especially with couples these processes occur beyond language and conscious encountering traumatic relationship disharmony. Since reflection” (p. 198). She quotes The Boston Change Process Gerson notes that there is a tendency for individual Study Group’s (2005) belief that, “….change in implicit psychodynamic therapists to fall back on familiar linear relational knowing does not need or even necessarily paradigms when encountering difficult cases, a more benefit from verbal commentary or post hoc explication thorough discussion of therapeutic balance would have to be therapeutic.” Newirth (2003) emphasizes the use of been helpful. Never the less, the author says a lot when she reverie and play over traditional interpretation suggesting a concludes that, “What one must develop is an empathic similar perspective in which interpersonal enactments often response to a relationship system, not to the individuals take center stage. Clearly there is an increasing mutual within it” (p. 213). recognition of the value of therapeutic enactments in In psychoanalytic treatment metaphor provides a systemic and psychoanalytic praxis. space in which the analyst and patient have an empathic Dr. Gerson concludes her book with the following encounter: it telegraphs, in an intense way, the analyst’s observation: fundamental grasp of the patient’s experience. In systemic treatment metaphor plays a central role in both theory and I do not think that either therapeutic modality, the technique by expanding and illuminating the numerous analytic or the family systems approach, is truer layers of process and action that characterize family and than the other. The analytic approach is perhaps couple relationships. Dr. Gerson states, “Rather than let the more prismatic, while the family systems approach session meander with the implicit frame being transference more focused, but investigation and expansion at and countertransference exploration, family therapists either level can be beneficial. (p. 261) often identify, in fact organize, an entire session around a particular thematic emphasis. The metaphor serves to both I would amplify her statement and say that the ability to focus the accustomed redundancy and to imaginatively embrace both perspectives significantly enhances clinical release new interpersonal experiences” (p. 187). As a engagement with individuals, couples and families. This technique, “Metaphor liberates the redundant attributions book has something to offer psychoanalysts, family systems that a couple or family have assumed were their lot in therapists and those of us who integrate these two models. relationship life,” and “…metaphor is deliberately and Analysts and systemic therapists will have an opportunity strategically invoked to weld interlocking dynamics.” Dr. to visit each other’s clinical worlds in a personal and Gerson quotes Peggy Papp to emphasize the dynamic value compelling way while integrative clinicians will find the of metaphor in systemic treatment: “Explanatory language clarity of Dr. Gerson’s comparison and elaboration of both tends to isolate and fragment, to describe one event followed perspectives to be affirming and refreshing. by another in linear fashion. Figurative (metaphoric) language tends to synthesize and combine” (p. 198). References Enactments are an indispensable element in Boston Change Process Study Group. (2005). The “something Structural Family Therapy. Minuchin believed that more” than interpretation revisited: Sloppiness and co- enactments provided therapists with opportunities to create creativity in the psychoanalytic encounter. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 53, 693-729. the intensity essential for change to occur. Dr. Gerson states Carter, B., & McGoldrick, M. (1989). The changing family life that intensity “addresses the difference between the family cycle: A framework for family therapy (2nd ed.). Needham cognitively listening to a well-formulated interpretation Heights, MA.: Allyn and Bacon. and actually hearing a therapeutic message and feeling Levenson, E. A. (1983). The ambiguity of change: An inquiry into the a pressing and emergent need for change” (p. 198). The nature of psychoanalytic reality. New York: Basic Books. punctuation, elaboration and magnification of enactments Newirth, J. (2003). Between emotion and cognition: The push the family, or couple, beyond their threshold of generative unconscious. New York: Other Press. emotional and relational comfort, beyond their selective deafness, toward greater complexity. In my experience as Michael D. Zentman

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Disorders of the Self: A Personality-Guided Approach, by Marshall Silverstein. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press, 2007; 315 pp., $49.95. Fred M. Levin, MD arshall Silverstein has written an interesting and cohesiveness of the developing self. Self Museful book. One of the nice things about it is psychology regards such selfobject deficits as that it is very easy to read, and reflects, I believe, the frequently being more etiologically influential author’s serious effort to understand his subject matter in causing psychopathology than intrapsychic and communicate his insights faithfully to the readers. conflict. For this reason, self psychology was an His own research, as he describes it, is his efforts on the important development within psychoanalysis, “neuropsychogical dysfunction and premorbid functioning because it expanded—and challenged—the in relation to the course and outcome of schizophrenia and prevailing ego psychological viewpoint. Moreover, affective disorders” and what could say is a very closely its introduction of newly identified selfobject related area, self-psychology, about which he has a number transferences substantially influenced technical of publications. In other words, one of his tasks is that he approaches to treatment. (pp. 21-22) is trying hard to carefully understand our current Axis II perspective on personality disorders. His intuition, as stated From my perspective, this is one of the clearest and in advance, is to “demonstrate how self psychological best summaries of what happened historically of a very views may potentially add to and deepen our understanding complex series of developmental steps involving Kohut’s of the [various mental] disorders as they are presently contributions and their aftermath. Those of us who lived denoted” (p. 4) in our diagnostic manuals. through this period of radical change in psychoanalytic If Silverstein only accomplished helping us theory remember the difficulty the profession of appreciate the subtleties of self psychology and its psychoanalysis passed through, finally returning to applications, his book would be a major contribution. His a “cohesive” state itself that allowed the field and its affiliation with the old Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago practitioners to much better appreciate what patient’s were (where he was a senior psychologist at Michael Reese, feeling, and how to address their needs. and also at Illinois State Psychiatric Institute), and the The chapter of self psychology is, as you would Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, expect from my comments already, a gem. But the beauty surely brought him into contact with Heinz Kohut and/ of this book comes from its seemingly never-ending or his ideas, and who better to know than the man who extensions from self psychology into other fields within invented self psychology? Having “grown up” myself, clinical psychoanalysis and psychology. And at every step, so to speak, at Michael Reese and the Chicago Institute the reader is invited to understand in ways that almost for Psychoanalysis, and having greatly benefited from impossible to confuse because of the lucidity of the prose, Kohut’s creativity and that of his colleagues in Chicago and the clarity of examples. and elsewhere, I find Silverstein’s clarity in this regard I highly recommend this book to anyone with a enviable. serious interest in psychoanalysis, but especially anyone Let me provide more detail to illustrate the points who wishes to learn deeply about self psychology, its above by citing his definition of selfobject as: history, and its application to a variety of mental disorders. The excellence of the “guide” will make any reader’s An internalized experience that functions to journey a joy of insight. invigorate or strengthen the self, both in normal development as a legitimate need for sustaining Fred Levin self-cohesion, and in states of distress when its [email protected] purpose is to restore to the relationship between the constituents of the self—for example, its cohesiveness and vitality—and ways other people or ideals and values serve to shore up the self . . . . Self object functions of mirroring, idealization, and twinship . . . . firm up or strengthen the

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Understanding, Assessing and Treating Adult Victims of Childhood Abuse, by Ofelia Rodriguez-Srednicki and James A. Twaite. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson, 2006; 376 pp., $64.95. Laura Barbanel, EdD, ABPP

odriguez-Srednicke and Twaite cover a great deal Significant data is presented reinforcing the Rof material in this volume. They review the nature, importance of community support and parent training for origins and prevalence of child abuse extensively as well new parents, particularly those without families and social as the various syndromes that are associated with it. They support networks and those who do not have financial also have several chapters on treatment. They start by an resources. As analysts we see people who have poor overview of child abuse and the known characteristics social skills and who have history of abuse. What is our of it. They inform us that the origins of parental abuse responsibility to their children? As a society, if we provide in childhood (according to the US Department of Health parenting help, we potentially help generations of children. and Human Services, 1988) include several parental What continues to be clear to us as analysts characteristics: becoming a parent at a who listen to individual’s stories is very young age, being a single parent, the numbers of adults who report having several young children close in having been abused as children. In age, being a substance abuser, having this volume they report a decided a history of poor impulse control difference between the reports of and having suffered child abuse as adults (particularly women) of a child. They add that parents who childhood sexual abuse and the data abuse children have a history of poor obtained by agencies who obtain coping skills, particularly social this data directly. Various agencies skills. These deficits lead to social that report this data report between 2 isolation and lack of opportunity to and 19 children per 1000 are abused learn appropriate parenting skills. in childhood. Self reports by adult In short, all of the things that lead women yield 16 to 45 percent of adult to difficulties in life also lead to females reporting having been abused individuals being potential abusers. in some way. Obviously it depends The findings that social on what gets labeled as abuse. But the networks and community support difference might also be a result of are factors in good parenting is also difference in reporting. Many cases reinforced by independent findings of child abuse and child sexual abuse that indicates that social networks, go underreported and may be more attachment and community support likely to be reported in adulthood. are factors in the resilience of people In any case when we listen to the exposed to trauma of all kinds. We stories of patients’ childhoods, we have long known that some people grow after adversity and become aware of the prevalence of abuse in childhood. some decline. There is recently a great deal of discussion The data bears that out. It certainly makes us think that, no of the question of who are the people who do not develop matter what the political controversy, that Freud was onto PTSD, who are the resilient ones? Who are these people? something when he came up with his seduction theory. The data may be more complex, but essentially the answer Although there is a tendency to be dismissive of this part of is that these people are the ones who have social support Freud’s theory, let us not do so too quickly. and connection. Furthermore, those who are not resilient, There is a comprehensive review of the literature also have the potential to create terrible things for other, on childhood abuse and the various syndromes associated in this case for their children. We need to understand that with it. Child sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with when we do not help those who are suffering, we are not attachment disorders, borderline personality disorders, only leaving them to suffer, but leaving their children to eating disorders, as well as self destructive disorders and suffer. PTSD. A chapter is devoted to each of these connections.

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There is extensive discussion of dissociation as a dominate symptom of CSA. Extensive literature review is presented along with clinical examples. This is helpful to anyone who is interested in the research data. What isn’t quite there is the notion of the centrality of dissociation in the adult survivors of abuse as described by a number of analytic writers. The middle section of the book focuses on the assessment of adult survivors. This is an extensive review of assessment tools and how to utilize them. It is certainly and interesting and informative. Thos who do this kind of assessment would be well served by reviewing this section. The final section is devoted to the treatment of survivors of childhood abuse. This section consists of three chapters, one on individual therapy, one on group treatment and one of treating survivors who have co- morbid substance abuse disorders. Clearly the topic can not be treated in depth in three chapters. What is useful is the systematic review of various kinds of treatment and some basic principles of treatment: establish security and trust in the relationship go slowly in asking for descriptions of the traumatic experiences because for some that is retraumatizing, set realistic goals, etc. The terms used are not that of a psychoanalytic framework. Dysfunctional schemas; deconditioning and the like are not the terms that analytic writers typically use or the way analysts talk about patients. Nonetheless, there is a great deal of salient advice for those who may not be familiar with the particular needs of adult survivors of childhood abuse. As such it can be useful to those who are not familiar with these patients. The book can also serve as a useful adjunct to the teaching about child abuse. Students would find the review of research and of assessment techniques particularly useful and faculty would do well to recommend the book in that light.

Laura Barbanel [email protected]

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Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t Want You to Know about Shock Treatment, by Linda Andre. Rutgers, NJ & London: Rutgers University Press, 2008; 359 pp., $26.95. Bertram P. Karon, PhD and Mary K. Karon

t is not surprising that the best recent book about elec- summary of both the older research and recent research. Itric shock treatment is written not by a professional, but Unlike the summaries that delete evidence of permanent by a former patient who was administered electric shock amnesia or brain damage, put forth by professionals with treatment 25 years ago. Many professionals have become a vested interest in ECT, her summary is up to date and tactful in discussions of electric shock treatment because accurate. This is the most useful and important part of the practitioners of electric shock frequently hold key positions book. Incidentally, patients who have received ECT have in medical schools, universities, hospitals, government, and the same rate of suicide, or a higher rate of suicide, than professional organizations. Psychoanalysts express their those who have not, according to available research studies. reservations most effectively by provid- Andre then summarizes the efforts ing better alternatives, psychoanalysis of patients who feel that they have and psychoanalytic therapy. None- been injured by ECT to get the facts to theless, when working with severely the public, to professionals, and to the disturbed patients, it was obvious that FDA. Andre continued the publication patients who had received electric of Shockwaves after its founder, Marilyn shock treatments improved much more Rice, died. Shockwaves was a publica- slowly in psychoanalytic psychotherapy tion issued by the Committee for Truth than equally sick patients who had in Psychiatry, an organization primarily never received ECT. of patients who have received ECT. She Linda Andre begins her book describes the struggles of these people, with a chapter describing eloquently who feel that patients and families have what it feels like to live with the after- a right to accurate information before effects of electric shock treatment. In they receive ECT. Informed consent is some ways it is a surprising descrip- meaningless if the truth is not told to the tion. Most patients do not describe their patient or whoever is authorized to give symptoms caused by electric shock consent. treatment in detail. Of course, if the She details the heroic efforts patient thinks (whether or not it is true) patients have made to be heard. The that you might have the power to order FDA asked for comments on ECT, but more electric shock treatment, they will then has ignored the mass of letters sent tell you that there were no bad effects or that the treatment by patients, saying that only the opinions of doctors are was very helpful. They know that any negative statement evidence. When shock practitioners solicited positive letters about shock treatment is likely to result in their being from patients to the FDA after the deadline for submissions, diagnosed as lacking insight and therefore requiring more only eight letters were produced, and three of these were shocks. In addition, brain-damaged patients in general tend found to be written by psychiatrists. to try to avoid being aware of their deficits. A recent study cited by Andre, carried out by However, if they are sure that you do not have the SURE (Service User Research Enterprise, Institute of power to order more shock treatments, most patients who Psychiatry), an agency of the British government, involving have had ECT, and most of their relatives, will relate the hundreds of patients, reported, as a conservative estimate, negative effects with which they live, although not usually that at least 30% of patients suffer permanent amnesias and in detail.. a higher percentage reported permanent cognitive difficulty This book goes on to summarize carefully and (Robertson & Pryor, 2006; SURE, 2002). accurately the scientific evidence for the effects of ECT. Andre describes how the FDA has avoided insist- Andre provides a thorough as well as accurate summary of ing on studies of safety and effectiveness from either the the research. It is extraordinarily useful to have an accurate manufacturers or psychiatrists. She also describes how

23 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2010 psychiatry, from the 1970s on, has decided that the problem of electricity now used is much greater than it used to be. is not how to study the safety and effectiveness of ECT, but This book provides us with a readable readily how to change public opinion, and that has been their suc- available source of information for patients, relatives of pa- cessful tactic. She argues that neurological imaging tech- tients, students, and colleagues. It is the best book currently niques currently available readily describe brain damage, as available. If you prefer (or need) a book written by profes- does current neuropsychological testing. She maintains that sionals, psychologist Robert F. Morgan’s (1999) Electro- these readily available techniques make possible accurate shock Therapy Over Four Decades: The Case Against, or evaluation of the brain damage and functional damage psychiatrist Peter Breggin’s (2008) Brain Disabling Treat- caused by ECT, or their absence, but no such studies have ments in Psychiatry: Drugs, ECT, and the Psychopharma- been carried out. ceutical Complex, are strongly recommended. Throughout Andre is dismayed and surprised that experts on ECT, including psychologists and psychiatrists, References so often make clearly misleading statements about the Breggin, P. R. (2008). Brain-disabling treatments in psychiatry: facts, including their own and other published research as Drugs, electric shock, and the psychopharmaceutical complex. well as their own unpublished research. ECT proponents New York: Springer. deny permanent amnesia or brain damage, or attribute them Morgan, R. F. (Ed.). (1999). Electro-shock treatment over four decades: The case against. Phoenix, AZ: Morgan Foundation to the way ECT used to be administered. Each generation Publishers International. goes back to earlier ways of administering ECT. Some ECT Robertson, H. & Pryor, R. (2006). Memory and cognitive effects proponents attribute permanent amnesia or brain damage to of ECT: Informing and assessing patients. Advances in Psychi- the medications or the “disease” of depression, but provide atric Treatment, 12, 228-238. no convincing evidence. The only real advance has been in Service User Research Enterprise (SURE), Institute of Psychiatry the medications used for anesthesia and seizure control, and (January, 2002). Review of consumers’ perspectives on elec- in the maximum power of the machines. The medications tro-convulsive therapy. London: Author. also increase the threshold for seizures, so that the amount Bert Karon 517-332-3083

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Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators? edited by David Black. London: Routledge, 2006; 288 pp., $41.95. Ryan LaMothe, PhD reud’s antipathy toward and pathologizing of religion are psychoanalysis and religion, will attempt to draw parallels Fwell known, though not often explored and understood. between particular analytic ideas and religious beliefs or Clearly Freud’s views shaped his disciples and subsequent myths, suggesting a more collaborative approach. Another generations of psychoanalysts. Winnicott and others collaborative method is to divine how religious stories represented a shift, signifying greater openness toward and concomitant values influenced analytic theory. These religious faith, though, for many other analysts, religion stances are represented in the diverse chapters of this and religious experience continued to be problems to be book, leaving the reader to choose between collaboration, analyzed. During the last twenty competition, or some mixture as s/ years, a number of prominent he seeks to engage religion from the analysts have demonstrated interest perspective of psychoanalysis. in and appreciation of religion The editor, David Black, and spirituality (Eigen, Sorenson, introduces the book by providing Epstein, and Rizzuto, to name a brief overview of psychoanalytic a few). They have recognized theorizing about religion. For parallels between psychoanalytic individuals unfamiliar with some concepts and principles and have of the key figures in the analysis noted psychological insights of religious experience, this first present within religious myths chapter is an important beginning. and rituals. David Black’s edited Black concludes the chapter by book, Psychoanalysis and Religion informing the reader that the book in the 21st Century: Competitors comprises four sections, which or Collaborators?, reflects this he interestingly says is arbitrarily ongoing attempt to engage and organized. The first set of chapters re-evaluate religious faith and its explores the issue of religious varied traditions of meaning and truth vis-à-vis psychoanalytic care. interests in reality and truth. The Black’s subtitle, second section examines religious “Competitors or Collaborators”, stories that contain psychological suggests some past and present truths. This is followed by chapters tensions between analytic and that address the psychological religious perspectives. Moreover, functions of religion in human the subtitle points to the various life. The final section addresses methodological stances analytic some of the parallels between authors assume when relating to religious issues and religious traditions and psychoanalysis. It is not possible to topics. One stance is to examine religious truths/beliefs summarize 14 chapters. Instead, I briefly touch on a couple using analytic concepts, suggesting that analytic theory of chapters in each section in hope of providing the reader is either the arbiter of the relevance of this or that truth or with a taste of the varied banquet that awaits them. the diagnostician of religious experience. This approach Rachel Blass’ chapter, “Beyond Illusion,” is an often fosters conflict and competition between analysts intricate and passionate argument for the importance of and religious people vis-à-vis truth and reality. A similar retaining Freud’s concern for truth in addressing religious approach is to reinterpret religious stories or experiences experience and in engaging in conversation with religious using psychoanalytic concepts and developmental theory. believers. Blass points out that since the mid-1980s analysts This method often highlights the individual and collective have made conciliatory approaches to religion, which tend functional, psychological aspects of a religious story/idea. toward a sympathetic stance toward religion. For instance, Other analysts, who see an area of overlap between analysts view religion as an expression of truth and reality

25 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2010 within “a kind of self- or relational experiencing within new risks, and on the other hand, the retreat of an illusional the realm of illusion” (p. 24). Bass does not dismiss this Oedipal system…. The appearance of resolution in the perspective, but she argues that it accompanies a loss. Christmas myth disguises the painful conflicts at the Bass acknowledges Freud’s rejection of religion and his threshold of the depressive position, and the need to own dismissal of new approaches to the notion of illusion vis-à- cognitive dissonant cognitions, to become more able to vis religious experience that appeared in his lifetime. Freud, stand guilt and responsibility for one’s actions” (p. 101). she notes, rejected these approaches precisely because The notion that the Christmas story is a transformation of he was interested in truth and reality. While Bass does the “post-exilic myth” of the Old Testament is interesting not accept Freud’s argument on the pathological sources vis-à-vis an individual’s psychic life, but hardly convincing, of religious experience, she argues for the importance especially given the deeply complex diversity of Old of retaining Freud’s criterion that founded his views of Testament myths and how they function and functioned. religion—truth/reality. Delving into Moses and Monotheism, This thinly argued section is followed by a more Bass addresses Freud’s view of material and historical extensive discussion of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Millar truth. Historical truth for Freud is not equated with external proposes that the haunting represents “the intervention facts, but rather an amalgam of psychic and external reality. of a flawed but good internalized father that Scrooge has In Freud’s work, she argues, one notes a “radical shift in triumphed over in the Oedipal situation” (p. 113). These Freud’s position regarding the truth of religious ideas and ghostly visitations signify the workings of the psyche that their relationship to his own . . . . Freud’s focus is now involves a movement from a melancholic, obsessed state to on the truth and justifications of these ideas, not on their a greater sense of freedom. Each ghost confronts Scrooge distortive nature” (p. 37). In addition, while Freud retained with his past and the consequences of his unacknowledged the view that religious ideas distort objective reality, he subjugation to grief and bitterness. A truth that is revealed in conceded that “all ideas [are] attempt[s] to grasp the primal this religious story is “the recognition that all serious choice realities of mankind” (p. 37). Both Freud and the religious brings loss and the relinquishment of something treasured” believer, Blass points out, “share not only a concern for (p. 113). truth, but also the inevitable failure to grasp it fully” (p. 35). The third section of the book addresses the The newer approaches to religion, Bass argues, place the nature and psychological functioning of religious importance of truth and reality in the background, which experiences. These six chapters cover some intriguing screens the tensions and differences between religious and topics. Michael Parsons explores religious and psychoanalytic realities—tensions and differences that psychological transformations. Jeffrey Rubin argues can enrich both without necessarily diminishing either. that spiritual experiences can enrich psychoanalysis and This shared desire for truth and the humbling experience that psychoanalysis can enrich spiritual seekers. Francis of seeing through a glass darkly can offer “a new arena Grier investigates the topic of the experience and practice for dialogue between opposing views” as long as analysts of human and divine adoration and how it functions in continue to address the thorny issue of reality and truth. In the psychic economy. Kenneth Wright delves into the short, Blass believes that respectful competition will serve relation between preverbal needs and experiences and their both analysts and religious believers as they seek to discern relation to religious ideas of the sacred and redemption. truths and realities. Neville Symington posits that religion is the guarantor of Section two of the book comprises two chapters civilization, the loss of which will surely lead to barbarism. wherein authors explore religious stories (e.g., Job and These are stimulating chapters, meriting greater attention. the Christmas stories) for psychoanalytic truths. In The lack of space forces me to elaborate further on only particular, David Millar’s chapter, “The Christmas Story: A one, Wright’s chapter. Psychoanalytic Inquiry,” examines nativity stories relying While Wright argues that religious experience on traditional psychoanalytic concepts. Millar argues that has its roots in the preverbal core of the self, he realizes “the ‘metaphysical topography of the relationship between that not everything about religion can be understood from gods and men’ concerns the relationship between the ego this perspective. Wright begins by briefly suggesting that and the superego” (p. 99). Describing the developmental Freud’s theorizing about religion was in concert with the dynamics vis-à-vis the superego and ego and Klein’s notion patriarchal society and religion in which he grew up, which of the depressive position, Millar suggests, in a complex ended up being manifested in his theory and approach to and dense paragraph, that the “Christmas myth mediates, others. Patriarchal influence, Wright points out, focuses on the one hand, the idea of intervention that encourages on aggression and the erotic, while more maternalistic movement towards relinquishment of omnipotence, loss approaches aim toward love (agape) as expressed in the of the idea of one’s own immortality, and acceptance of mother–infant bond. Wright’s own theorizing follows what

26 Psychoanalytic Books he calls the maternal approach. With this background, recognition and experience of those unintegrated aspects Wright claims that adult verbal, religious constructions of oneself becomes important in psychological healing. of experience contain nonverbal experiences rooted Therapy, like Buddhist meditation, facilitates the capacity in the mother–infant bond. This bond establishes an for unintegration, while aiming to enable a reorganization aesthetic moment or non-representational knowledge—the of the self as system. Spiritual and psychological growth knowledge of being recognized and held. The religious embrace the paradox of integration in unintegration and quest, Wright argues, is linked to this aesthetic moment unintegration in integration. wherein the believer seeks recognition and containment. Since Epstein shows appreciation for Buddhism, More particularly, the search for redemption is fueled by let me conclude with a Zen story of two monks traveling to the existential need to be found, to be recognized. What is another monastery. On this particular day, the monks were found and contained are often those aspects of oneself that to observe silence. Upon approaching a river, one of the were relegated to the trash bins of the psyche. It is also the monks noticed an old man trying to cross. Walking up to desire to move beyond mere existing and to feel alive and him, he asked, “Sir, do you need help in crossing?” The old real. Redemption, from this perspective, is the integration of man nodded. The monk placed him on his back and waded the psyche wherein split off parts are recognized, accepted, across the fast moving stream. Once on the other side, he set and contained. The spiritual quest is, in part, the aesthetic him down and the monks proceeded on their journey. As the and transformational experiences of being found and day waned, there was a tension in the silence. After the last concomitantly being alive and real. rays of sun gave way to night, the other monk chastised his The final section explores the connections and fellow for speaking to the old man. When he finished, his intersections between psychoanalysis and religion. If the friend responded, “I left the old man at the bank of the river, various psychoanalytic theories represent anthropologies, but I see that you have been carrying him all day.” These one might find some two monks signify, in part, connection to various “Since religion and spirituality are important ways psychoanalysts have theological anthropologies. for most Americans, it becomes therapeutically dealt with religion. The old Mark Epstein’s chapter, and ethically necessary to be aware of our own man, like religion, is on “The Structure of No the trail. It can be ignored, Structure,” juxtaposes emotional responses to religious experiences. but one cannot deny its and explores the relation Iis incumbent upon the competent analyst to presence. Also, religion, between Winnicott’s notion be familiar with the history of psychoanalytic like the old man, necessarily of unintegration and the theorizing vis-à-vis religion and the various evokes a response. For Buddhist idea of no-self. some, religion evokes secret Epstein depicts the self methods used in engaging religious perspectives.” resentment or outright as a) self as experience, anger and scorn, giving rise which is our “subjective experience through time;” b) self to either competition or dismissal. Others have been more as representation, which is an internalized concept of who compassionate and understanding, greeting the religious one is; c) self as system, which is “the entire constellation traveler as a fellow instead of a foe. of self-representations” (p. 224). Contemplative meditation Collaboration and appreciation are the responses addresses each of these “selves.” In terms of the self as that accompany curiosity, respect, and care. Perhaps, experience, meditation “deepens our sense of mystery of all of us carry aspects of each of these experiences and our being” (p. 224). Meditation also loosens our hold on approaches. Since religion and spirituality are important for self-representations that we grip tightly onto for a sense most Americans, it becomes therapeutically and ethically of security. While nothing changes in meditation, the self necessary to be aware of our own emotional responses as system is reorganized. Greater awareness does not to religious experiences. In short, it is incumbent upon diminish our psychic conflicts and struggles, but provides an the competent analyst to be familiar with the history of acceptance that accompanies non-striving. Similarly, Epstein psychoanalytic theorizing vis-à-vis religion and the various argues, Winnicott’s state of unintegration is compatible methods used in engaging religious perspectives. This book with the “Buddhist suggestion that it could be salutary for provides a helpful and interesting introduction for analysts the mind to learn how to relax into itself” (p. 228). Epstein to answer for themselves whether they are collaborators or goes on to note that Winnicott believed it is unhealthy to competitors or some combination of both when they listen fear “the innate capacity of every human being to become to their patients’ discourses about their religious faith. unintegrated, depersonalized, and to feel the world us unreal” (p. 229). Hearkening back to Wright’s chapter, Ryan LaMothe

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Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis, edited by Gabriele Schwab, New York: Columbia University Press, 2007; 212 pp., $26.00. Louis Rothschild, PhD s the twentieth century came to a close we witnessed word, and Deleuze’s subsequent attack on Freud’s treatment Athe death of three great philosophers at near decade of the Wolf Man, which may also be considered an attack on intervals. Foucault died in 1984. Deleuze died in 1995, all of philosophy. The goal of this attack is to bring stupidity and Derrida in 2004. Each may be considered an important to modesty. The idea that stupidity is unique to the human twentieth century philosopher who created significant bodies condition and may be captured in concepts such as nihilism of work. All took psychoanalysis seriously. However, our (cf., Deleuze, 1962/1983) and neurotic suffering reminded ability to take each of them seriously varies. That should me of Lacan (in Turkle, 1978). Speaking at MIT in 1975, come as no surprise. After all, we continue to wrestle with Lacan quipped that man is encumbered with excrement and the Cartesian dualism known to students of philosophy does not know what to do with it. He added that only with some years earlier. Although the present volume does refer civilized animals do we find a similar lack of discretion. to Foucault, its emphasis is with the Further, that excrement is discrete work of Derrida and Deleuze and their in nature and even elephants know relationships to psychoanalysis. The what to do with their excrement work is edited by Gabriele Schwab of significant magnitude. In this who was the director of the Critical volume, I read Derrida and the other Theory Institute at University of contributors to be following Lacan California Irvine in 2002 when several to say that an elephant unlike man of the papers found in this volume cannot be stupid because an elephant were presented at a conference held on has no idea of territoriality, so it is that campus. The conference title was inappropriate to speak of disavowal “Derrida/Deleuze: Psychoanalysis, in regard to elephants. Humans on Territoriality, Politics.” As Schwab the other hand, do have an ability notes in her introduction, this was to conceive of territory, and thus to be Derrida’s last appearance at an stupidity and disavowal. institution where he was a cherished There is a danger in member of the International Center for attempting to synthesize the Writing and Translation in the School material found herein. However, of Humanities. a persisting inoculation is found The volume is not only throughout this collection of papers. concerned with Freud’s work, but as These authors are well versed in Schwab writing in her introduction critique and consistently remind the and Greg Lambert whose paper reader of difference. In particular anchors the book make clear, the is the difference between Deleuze concern is also with psychoanalysis to and Derrida. A summary of such come. In these pages, the consulting room is not a privileged difference might be that while Deleuze emphasizes a home for psychoanalysis. That is to say that psychoanalysis pluralistic flow based in a belief of primary holism, Derrida is considered to be applicable across contexts. Of course, emphasizes a post hoc space occurring beyond the pain such a thesis is no newer than critical theory or Freud of separation. In short, Derrida may be considered to himself. Yet, and this is also not new (i.e., Jacoby, 1975), if problematize the self while Deleuze seeks to dismantle it. resistance to critical theory is commonplace, this volume Here there is rich variance moving through literature offers some thought in the direction of a cure. and politics. Gregg Lambert’s paper, the last in the volume, Derrida’s opening essay on transcendental stupidity takes Deleuze and Guattari’s treatment of the Wolf Man to was completed during his illness. Here Derrida speaks of a show that truth claims that are not generated in a context of state: stupidity, which may be taken to be content specific, modesty may result in nihilism. Lambert draws on literary but is also a structure that occurs across contexts (how giants such as Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett, and Franz specific content might alter such a structure is beyond the Kafka to support the thesis that reason being perverted folds scope of this review). Derrida’s focus is Deleuze’s use of the in upon itself. Lambert is hopeful in his argument that a 28 Psychoanalytic Books prognosis is dependent upon the manner in which resistance possible. is situated. To my ear, this resonates with the relational turn The only difficulty I had with this wonderful little and concepts such as intersubjective mutuality. book runs along what Branka Arsic identifies as the problem Dina Al-Kassin shifts the frame to political of the analysts knowledge along lines of Cartesian certainty. resistance. Utilizing the idea that for Deleuze, the task of Although the volume is commendable and recommended philosophy is to create new concepts she focuses on the in no small part due to the poignant reminders that manner in which a relationship with estrangement—or psychoanalysis is a theory whose applications extend beyond shame—is a necessary component of creativity. Here, the clinic, the consulting room is painted in strokes of and also in another paper by Branka Arsic in the volume, Cartesian nihilism—the clinician is stupid. Bumper sticker: disavowal in masochism is considered central to an enactment happens. Is that news? For me, this critique of understanding of resistance. In addition, Al-Kassin places the clinician read to me as essentialist. Certainly Freud’s psychoanalysis in a positive light in drawing on Derrida’s (1918) consideration of the number of goats present for the consideration pace Adorno that psychoanalysis is a site of Wolf Man as a defense against the primal scene is a case resistance in a culture that seeks to avoid difficult thought. of bedrock essentialism. However, it is no longer 1918. Yet, the concern that such a position is not assured for Some of us get multiplicity, and even speak of bedrock psychoanalysis is also found. This is seen in Al-Kassin’s envy (Fairfield, 2002). That such contemporary clinical use of Derrida’s idea that psychoanalysis will lose itself if it scholarship was absent suggests a need for rapprochement submits to norming. between those who primarily work with literature and those Pace Fanon’s anticolonialism, Al-Kassin uses an who identify first and foremost with the clinic. Otherwise, example of South African mothers who in 1990 stood naked we are left with what Stephen Mitchell (2002) noted in a in front of bulldozers that were about to level their homes. critique of Derrida to feel like an immodest [and], “infinite Footage of this event was later shown nationally on the regress of gotchas” (p. 110). news. Al-Kassin provides an analysis of the event of being It is wrestling with the tension found between lost at home and the subsequent public shame as a case bedrock envy and the “gotcha” of critical theory that for study of ethical engagement with resistance. In a manner me became the center of this lovely book. Such a clinical consistent with Fanon’s political work, Catherine Malabou stance is I think quite close to the psychoanalysis of the turns to Carroll and Kafka in her paper to illustrate the future that the book hopes for. It is true that the relational manner in which deconstruction for Derrida and Deleuze turn has masterfully shown that a humble space is often lost is a play in which a rupture between the relationship of a as we can be mis-attuned beasts. With such recognition we sign to its referent affords a capacity to turn metaphysics modestly work into and out of Cartesian knots. and deconstruction into each other. The challenge then may be considered the challenge of negotiating creativity and References trauma. The refrain: as we are capable of disavowal we can Bass, A. (2000). Difference and disavowal: The trauma of eros. be stupid or beastly thereby leaving trauma and dissociation Stanford: Stanford University Press. in a wake where creativity might have been (c.f., Bass, Deleuze, G. (1962/1983). Nietzsche and philosophy. H. Tomlinson 2000). Yet, there is a focus on the possibility of creativity. (Trans.). New York: Columbia University Press. Fairfield, S. (2002). Analyzing multiplicity: A postmodern For example, Akira Mizuta Lippit turns to LaPlanche and perspective on some current psychoanalytic theories of Pontails work on phantasy and Zizek’s statement that “the subjectivity. In S. Fairfiled, L. Layton, and C. Stack (Eds): unconscious is outside” to write on fantasies and dreams as Bringing the plague: Toward a postmodern psychoanalysis. acts of rewriting in relation to cinema. New York: Other Press, pp 69-101. Sara Guyer’s chapter takes on the problem of Freud, S. (1918). From the history of an infantile neurosis. In differentiation as a traumatized responsibility through Strachey, J. (Ed. and Trans.) The standard edition of the Derrida’s radicalization of Levinas in noting that the refusal complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud, 17:1-124. of violence may be considered violent in its very demand. Jacoby, R. (1975). Social Amnesia: A critique of contemporary Again, the concern with a truth claim read as truth that psychology from Adler to Laing. Boston: Beacon Press. need not be situated as a claim. This Nietzscheian thread Mitchell, S. A. (2002). The treatment of choice: A response to Susan Fairfield. In S. Fairfield, L. Layton, and C. Stack (Eds): that Derrida has followed to show the risks of sovereignty Bringing the plague: Toward a postmodern psychoanalysis. and subjectivity in the manner that Lewis Carroll’s Alice New York: Other Press. 102-111 speaks to her food instead of eating it—a fashion that Turkle, S. (1978). Psychoanalytic politics: Jacques Lacan and Klein might call paranoid. Certainly, deconstruction may Freud’s French revolution. London: Basic Books. leave one feeling that a depressive position or pace Derrida Louis Rothschild and Deleuze, a modest position is simply beyond what is [email protected]

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Object Relations and Social Relations: The Implications of the Relational Turn in Psychoanalysis, edited by Simon Clarke, Herbert Hahn, & Paul Hoggett London: Karnac, 2008; 256 pp., $43.95 Louis Rothschild, PhD ell known to those affiliated with Division 39, and healthy appetite for the book under review. Some may well Wnoted by Karen Izod in the eighth chapter of the consider such an appetite a bias. If so, it is revealed. volume under review, relational psychoanalysis is American What at first left me wondering if I had mistakenly in origin. Writing from her side of the Atlantic, Izod found a primer to relational psychoanalysis, fortunately gently reminds that this American outcropping has roots in changed into something remarkably different once I let Winnicott, Fairbairn, and the British Independent Group. myself sink into volume. With chapters on working with Possibly owning to the emphasis on a shared relational disenfranchised clients in the welfare system, research context, such a history has been explicit for some time methodology, and the organizational culture of the (Greenberg & Mitchell, 1983). The collection of papers workplace this collection of papers engages relational theory reviewed here affords an interesting relational matrix. Is it in an innovative manner that is worthy of the attention of that the English now get relational, or that we on American clinicians, academics, and researchers of either stripe— shores get traction from looking to the English? Clearly including graduate students. the dichotomized quality of ‘or’ is Lynne Layton’s opening chapter wrongheaded here. This work is an may be read as an introduction to illustration of the mutuality of “both/ relational psychoanalysis. Taken as a and.” The authors of this volume are primer it works quite well. Fortunately, hopeful that relational psychoanalysis it also does more. True to the book’s could allow transparency in regard to title, “Object Relations and Social practices among colleagues and critique Relations,” Layton emphasizes the what is taken for granted. It is notable cultural focus found in the William that such issues have also been explicit Alanson White Institute in general and in for some time now (cf., Moscovici, the particular work of Edgar Levenson’s 2008/1961). Given that, it may come as perspectivism in its capacity to frame a mild surprise that there is much herein “mutual enactments.” Layton traces that is downright refreshing. this thread through the contemporary In his introduction, Herbert work of Donnell Stern in a satisfying Hahn describes the manner in which manner, and situates this with her own Jody Messler Davis breathed new life work on identity which she notes is into his origins with Tavistock, Karnac, informed by Jessica Benjamin’s writing and Winnicott as recently as 2005. The on recognition. Here Layton non- book’s origin is credited to a conference reductively focuses on splitting at the whose point was to encourage dialogues cultural level and the often traumatic between academics, researchers, manner in which such splits are and clinicians. What attracted me internalized in the individual. to the volume is fairly simple. Anyone familiar with the Susie Orbach follows Layton’s embedded stance Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society in social movements and feminism to approach democracy (apcsweb.org) is probably also familiar with one of the in the consulting room. Here Orbach notes the danger of book’s editors. Simon Clarke a Professor of Psycho-Social interpreting a patient’s desire in a manner that perpetuates studies is a member of that association’s board of directors a patient’s experience as unacceptable. The theme of and with Lynne Layton edits the association’s journal. The Otherness is taken up throughout the book in regard to the other two editors, Herbert Hahn and Paul Hoggett are also manner in which the strangeness of the other may evoke a working in the Center for Psycho-Social Studies at the defensive dehumanized orientation. University of West England. Past conferences have left the To that end, Paul Hoggett addresses the paternalistic impression that the title of the Center is apt, and that it is fashion in which the liberal welfare subject is too often a special place. Missing last fall’s conference afforded a engaged in a disempowered fashion that skirts a shared 30 Psychoanalytic Books vulnerability. Hogget furthers this line of thinking in his consulting practice and work with the Tavistock Institute’s critique of contemporary identity theory’s inability to Advanced Organisational Consultation Society, where render a living and feeling subject. Here Hoggett argues being an agent of change at the organizational level is her that Judith Butler is unable to grasp the difference between charge, makes for additional good reading of psychoanalysis identification and internalization. Following what appears outside of the consulting room. Here splits in departments to be a theme, he then turns to Loewald to illustrate his and organizational meaning in general are understood pace point. What I like most about this line of argument is the paranoid–schizoid position and the consultant’s capacity that it follows Lynne Layton’s paper in which Butler’s to surface and manage tension. In this spirit, Margaret work is supported without such critique. Such diversity Page draws on feminist and post-colonialist management among chapter is most welcome especially as the book is literature to situate her co-inquiry methodology in a simultaneously able to sustain a central flow while allowing subsequent chapter whose goal is to bridge divergent such variance. In accord with Layton’s chapter and Butler’s expectations. Her case illustration on an enactment with a work, Hoggett also asserts that suffering is the Other to group of college students around gendered issues illustrates modernity. the manner in which defenses shift contextually. Both Izod Lynn Froggett continues an engagement with and Page highlight the manner in which ritualistic behaviors the welfare subject in work with the youth justice system may lead to an agency reducing rigidity in which a protected where she argues the importance of seeing the other as an space may afford a capacity to think and thereby regain a equivalent center of subjective experience. In this regard, sense of agency. she critiques a behavioral model that assumes all subjects Maybe it’s the frequency in which we evoke the are rational while simultaneously noting the danger of third, but that’s where I’m perseverating in a polysemous if idealizing a young artist and the importance of engaging not concrete fashion in moving toward an ending. It is in the both the destructive and third chapter of the book creative aspects of clients “Here Heidegger and Freud are the seeds under review that Paul Zeal in the youth system. From found in Mitchell’s use of Loewald and set in finds an intercontinental a clinical perspective, playfulness worthy of an Froggett’s work in using conversation with Lacan on Jouissance. Picture ending (and I might add, a the co-creation of poetry as the Socratic Greeks hanging around with R.D. beginning). Here Heidegger a route to self expression Laing and Nietzsche.” and Freud are the seeds warrants attention in regard found in Mitchell’s use of to the use of art and as an example of a qualitative research Loewald and set in conversation with Lacan on Jouissance. program making good use of relational theory. Picture the Socratic Greeks hanging around with R.D. It comes as no surprise given his position in Laing and Nietzsche. One fortunate outcome of reading psycho-social research that Simon Clarke makes use of the an Englishman’s take on Continental thought, especially Frankfurt School’s critique of positivism. He focuses on the jouissance is that I’ll never again be able to hear “mind the capacity for self reflection in regard to its lack as a factor in gap” in a train station as a concrete statement. Indeed, zeal stereotyping that leads to prejudice. Yet, ink has been spilled for Zeal. For this reviewer, one sentence is worth quoting: in Adorno’s wake, and Clarke evokes Fanon and Foucault “There is a cluster of European traditions here, deeper to flesh out his Klenian frame in explaining his qualitative than all of us, and in which we participate even without research program. knowing it” (p. 48). On multiple levels, it is the task of Wendy Hollway notes the power of the hyphenated psychoanalysis to render participation known. To that end, psycho-social as it avoids a reductionist frame of an I find that Zeal and his co-contributors to this volume are individual who is somehow separable from society. To this preaching to an inter-continental choir. Hallelujah. end, her research program entails engaging the question: are African and Bangladeshi new mothers different sorts References of mothers than “black” and “white” “western” mothers, Greenberg, J. & Mitchell, S. A. (1983). Object relations in and does this vary by class. Her use of Bion’s skepticism psychoanalytic theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. of knowledge that is stripped of emotion as a pillar of her Moscovici, S. (2008/1961). Psychoanalysis: Its image and its public. David Macey (Trans.). Malden, MA: Polity Press. empirical research program is notable, and her writing on her research program is recommended for anyone with an Louis Rothschild interest in psychoanalytic research especially in regard to [email protected] the use of interpretation and researcher subjectivity. Karen Izod’s use of Klein and Bion in her 31 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2010

A Healing Conversation, by Neville Symington. London: Karnac,

2006; 147 pp., $27.95 Michael J. Diamond, PhD, ABPP his short, down-to-earth, and pithy book, though simple of matter. According to this panexperiential viewpoint then, Tin theme, is anything but simple-minded. The book mind-stuff is the very fabric of the universe. seeks to answer the profound question of how an intimate It is of particular interest to clinicians as well conversation can have the power to heal an emotional as patients, each for whom the book is written, that problem. Based on a series of lectures to Australian mental Symington uses his rich clinical experience to propose health clinicians as well as interested lay attendees in that therapists are able to understand their patients through 2004 and 2005, Neville Symington offers an insightful, what he calls imaginative reconstruction. He posits a unpretentious, and largely jargon free relational account “creator within” each personality that cannot be explained, concerning the healing effects of human communication— though Symington implicitly relies on the Kantian notion in short, why the talking cure works. Although not written of innate, a priori ideas and the “original endowment of for psychoanalysts per se, the result is a compelling eternal truths.” Assuming a constructivist view of the mind, and straightforward read that provides an integrative, Symington refers to Bion’s (1962a,b) notion of the alpha contemporary psychoanalytic way of function as yet another way to refer to understanding the essential therapeutic this inner creator. Most germane to the action in psychoanalytic therapy. clinical encounter, Symington concludes Symington’s wide-reaching that inner creative activity on the part thesis is very much in the spirit of of the therapist and patient produces today’s pluralism. The author’s own the necessary deep, transformative creative, independent-minded thinking communication along with the is supplemented by a plethora of accompanying inner representations. expansive ideas together with those of Symington proclaims that it is the less psychoanalytically well-known, analyst or therapist’s task to facilitate philosophically inclined writers such as the patient’s capacity for deep emotional Charles Birch, G.K. Chesterton, John connection that allows for meaningful Macmurray, Peter March, and John communication. This requires that the Henry Newman; Jewish mystic as well analyst/therapist, akin to the mother as Jesuit metaphysical writers including with her baby, need be open herself to Teilhard de Chardin; neuroscience something within her wherein she can researchers (and popularizers) like “embrace her own experiences and Damaiso, Greenfield, and Hobson contain them within the perimeter of (though Symington contends that her own individual person” (p. 60). By neuroscience must remain secondary doing so, the clinician gives her patient to the unique affective encounter the same ingredient that the mother gives between human beings); and finally, major psychoanalytic her child and consequently, “emotional capital” builds up theoreticians ranging from Freud to Bion, Bowlby, Klein, and growth occurs for each. In short, it is the therapist’s Tustin, and Winnicott. Classical mythology, biblical stories, mental stance toward one’s own experience that enables the and clinical vignettes are employed to further Symington’s transition to take place in the patient. thesis that stands in contrast to the more Cartesian view It is noteworthy that Symington’s body of held by most of classical psychology and psychoanalysis. psychoanalytic writings (e.g., Symington, 1983, 2007) The essence of Symington’s theory is that there is largely focuses on this mental stance as an orientation that a fundamental emotional linkage existing between human depends upon the analyst’s spontaneous, inner creative beings that is processed within a different channel of actions. Such freedom can ensue only when the analyst is knowledge than the way we process information about the present as a person, who Symington maintains can exist nonhuman world. Most of the book goes on to explore and when the different parts of the analyst’s personality are elaborate on the effects of this special channel of emotional carried forth in a genuine, unified manner (a mode of being communication wherein the mind and brain are understood that he contrasts with a less genuine, aggregate mode based as two ways of looking at the same thing and the “stuff of on external accommodation). Consequently, the “inner the mind” is said to exist in the most elementary particles inviting presence” reflected in the analyst’s genuine bearing 32 Psychoanalytic Books becomes generative for the patient to create in tandem his O are most essential. Symington challenges therapists or her own unified person. constantly to exercise their faculty for using their creative, What makes the book rather reader-friendly is that spontaneous intuitive mind in communication with their Symington goes to some length to embody his more elusive, patients. When therapists fail to respond to their own “inner fairly ineffable ideas pertaining to emotional communication inviting presence,” the therapy itself becomes a spurious and therapeutic change. In fact, though not discussed by experience with neither party communicating deeply nor the author, I found Symington’s ideas on therapeutic action becoming transformed. As he states: rather compatible with those of Hans Loewald (1960). Loewald, writing from what Chodorow (2004) calls “an If I, as psychoanalyst or psychotherapist, embody intersubjective ego psychology” perspective, provides a more my own inner inviting presence, then it has a precise formulation relying on developmental, topographical, strengthening effect upon the inner inviting and structural psychoanalytic theory; nonetheless, like presence of the other. If this were not the case, then Symington, Loewald favors the idea of the internalization the patient would be just as well if she stayed home of an emotionally based relationship with the analyst. and read a book. (p. 95) Symington stresses the inner representation created through the analytic communication and utilizes Bion’s notion of (the In conclusion, by emphasizing an emotionally based, mother’s) reverie functioning as an agent for (the infant’s) embodied approach to transformative communication, internal psychic organization. In this respect, the external Symington highlights the importance of touching what is communicative mode comes to leave a lasting imprint upon often most difficult to embrace in oneself and the other. the patient’s (just as on the infant’s) psychological make He argues that true maturity is achieved when experience up. Loewald further argues that the patient’s emotional is entered in a more sensory–tactile way so that what is development rests on the analyst’s being at a higher-level ultimately accepted can be fully represented. This idea of organization—an hypothesis that Symington discusses in is congruent with every school of psychoanalysis that terms of the analyst providing a unified, inviting presence (a I know of, from the most classically Freudian through “unified being”) in relation to the patient’s more aggregate, the contemporary Kleinian, Lacanian and postmodern, yet to be embraced, creative presence. Symington takes this though it is rarely so strongly emphasized. In any event, up in a specific way in discussing a case: “If in an engaged what makes Symington’s writings especially appealing is relationship between two people, one of the two has faced that he invariably finds a way to make the most elusive her fear of death, then the other person has a good chance of realms of conscious and unconscious analytic experience being able to do so also” (p. 72). Such generative, creative come alive by helping his readers to touch their own inner communication involves the presence of a person in whom selves, specifically each reader’s own unique inner inviting “these higher principles and (Bion’s) O as the highest are presence, in the process. enfleshed” (p. 83). Bion’s influence is evident throughout, although References Symington distinguishes his notion of embrace from Bion, W.R. (1962a). The psycho-analytic study of thinking. Bion’s containment. By making an effort to embody International Journal Psychoanalysis, 43:306-310. his concepts, Symington’s embrace connotes more of a Bion, W.R. (1962b). Learning from experience. Northvale, NJ: Aronson. tactile–sensory experience requiring subjective activity Bromberg, P. (2001). Standing in the spaces: Essays on clinical process, trauma and dissociation. New York: Routledge. (for example, putting one’s arms around something) than Chodorow, N.J. (2004). The American independent tradition: does containment. Consistent with contemporary relational Loewald, Erikson, and the (possible) rise of intersubjective psychoanalysts, for instance Bromberg’s (2001) ideas ego psychology. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14: 207-232. on multiplicity and Donnell Stern’s on unformulated Loewald, H.W. (1960). On the therapeutic action of psycho- experience (2003), Symington argues that personality analysis. International Journal Psychoanalysis,, 41:16-33. develops when its aggregate units are embraced (through Stern, D. (2003). Unformulated experience: From dissociation to sensory–affective registration), and thus therapists must imagination in psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge. be skilled in making direct contact with their own and the Symington, N. (1983). The analyst’s act of freedom as agent of therapeutic other’s experience. change. International Review Psychoanalysis, 10: 283-291. In speaking to clinicians, Symington makes it Symington, N. (2007). A technique for facilitating the creation of mind. International Journal Psychoanalysis, 88: 1409-1422. clear that the analyst’s tendencies to rely on application of psychoanalytic models can obstruct their very Michael J. Diamond enterprise and thus, rather than privileging theoretical [email protected] conceptualization, the clinician’s use of intuition and Bion’s

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A Dream of Undying Fame: How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis, by Louis Breger. NY: Basic Books, 2009. Joseph Barber, Ph.D. The Creativity and the Tragedy of Freud to be right and he required unwavering loyalty from his This small biography is a gem—a brilliantly polished colleagues. This was a central tragedy limiting his greatness examination of a vital aspect of Sigmund Freud’s life and his humanity. and work; specifically, his creation of the theory of Freud and Breuer claimed that cathartic recall psychoanalysis and, in the service of this accomplishment, of traumatic memories “immediately and permanently” his remarkable perfidy of his teacher, Josef Breuer, the relieved hysterical symptoms (p. 73). However, as Breger physician who had mentored Freud and, notably, had notes, “it was much more difficult to achieve cures in introduced Freud to Breuer’s development of the “talking practice than this statement implies” (p. 73). Contemporary cure.” Louis Breger, a psychoanalytic scholar and clinician, evidence actually suggests that traumatic symptoms are has published two previous biographies, Freud: Darkness less likely to be relieved by such clinical approaches in the Midst of Vision, which was a than methods intended to produce deep exploration of Freud’s life and competing, benign memories. If the work and Dostoevsky: The Author as claims of Freud and Breuer were Psychoanalyst. correct, one would expect that, As he did in his earlier Freud for instance, the vivid, cathartic biography, in A Dream of Undying flashbacks of soldiers would be self- Fame, Breger provides a nuanced, limiting, if not altogether curative, balanced and ultimately respectful which they are not. examination of the history of Freud’s Freud initially framed his initial forays into psychotherapeutic formulations as hypotheses. However, treatment under the guidance with the passage of time—but with of Breuer and the nascent no supporting evidence—he came to psychoanalytic ideas they developed express these formulations as fact. (p. in collaboration. Breger’s criticism 78) of Freud’s ideas is tempered by Since Freud is otherwise so compassion for Freud’s evident long- vulnerable to confirmatory bias and standing personal torment. Breger other logical errors in the service describes Freud’s lifelong obsession of promoting his assertion that, for with becoming famous and, to that example, sexual factors underlie all end, his betrayal of Breuer, with forms of neurosis, one wonders how whom he broke professionally and reliable Freud’s claims might be of socially and whom he eventually any of the details unearthed from failed to credit for their critically patients’ reports. Breger does not raise important early collaboration. this specific concern, but, in the absence of confirmatory Breger’s description of Freud’s early history evidence, for instance, we can never know the accuracy increases our understanding of Freud’s development of of Freud’s claim that a young girl had been “sexually some later, unsubstantiated theoretical views. For instance, molested each night by her governess” (p. 80). In fact, one Breger characterizes the conflict between Freud and his might interpret the following to be a reflection of Freud’s fiancée’s mother and older brother: “These fights were awareness (or guilt?) of a fictional element to his case unconscious remnants of his reactions to all those sisters studies: “It still strikes me myself as strange that the case who took his mother from him as a child…” (p. 13). histories I write should read like short stories and that, as Confirmatory bias occurs throughout Freud’s one might say, they lack the serious stamp of science.” (p. writings and Breger brings it compassionately to life. He 81) makes it clear that Freud’s mind, brilliant as it could be Freud’s thinking was highly metaphorical, a fact in the generation of ideas, was simply not open to the which enlivened his writings but which also limited their possibility of disconfirmation of these same ideas. He had basis in science. More, this dissociated his ideas from

34 Psychoanalytic Books reality. He was, apparently, sometimes aware of this. conflicted with moral standards. In addition, the Breger quotes a letter to Fliess, in which Freud confesses, theory itself—immediately promoted to “universal” “I no longer believe in my neurotica,” adding that “there status—became Freud’s bid for “eternal fame”; it are no indications of reality in the unconscious.” (p. 95) would make him a great scientist. (p. 96) A contemporary critic of Freudian theory would be hard pressed to express it more concisely. Breger’s depiction of Freud’s personality, especially his Although Breger observes that it is this “fictional” desperate quest for fame, shows us a pitiable man. For all quality to Freud’s narrative style that enriches his writing of Freud’s substantial talent at observation and, more, for and renders it so compelling, the question of its factual his distinct and articulate expression, his personal torment accuracy remains open. One glimpses the apparent ease was a profoundly limiting quality. With the benefit of with which a thought Freud may have about his own contemporary psychological knowledge, one can readily psychology becomes a “fact” about everyone’s. “A single see that many of Freud’s ideas were based primarily idea of general value dawned on me. I have found, in my upon his rich imagination. His talent for fantasy was own case too, the phenomena of being in love with my surely as capacious as that of his hysterical patients. This mother and jealous of my father, and I now consider it a commonality likely contributed to his extensive range of universal event in early childhood.” [Italics mine.] (p. 95) ideas but not to their critical examination. Thus, Freud admits that he takes an experience of Breger suggests that Studies in Hysteria “began childhood feelings of his a revolution in our own (taken by him as “For all of Freud’s substantial talent at observation understanding of real, though we cannot and, more, for his distinct and articulate expression, human personality know why) and then, as and psychological if by magic, he considers his personal torment was a profoundly limiting disturbance.” He adds the experience to be quality. . . . many of Freud’s ideas were based that Freud “pushed the a universal one. One primarily upon his rich imagination. His talent field in a number of can make the case that fruitful directions.” (p. Freud’s theories—his for fantasy was surely as capacious as that of 99) Freud’s emphasis on assertions about others’ his hysterical patients. This commonality likely both the existence and the psychology—were contributed to his extensive range of ideas but not to ubiquity of unconscious essentially projections their critical examination.” motivation and on the of his own sense of potential meaningfulness self. The fact that there of dreams continue is a kernel of truth to some of them reflects that his own to be powerful cultural influences. However, when Freud psychology was not so different than that of most humans. chose to not test his theoretical formulations with empirical Breger’s clinical acumen is beautifully rendered in research, he also led the field astray. More, one might argue, his analysis of Oedipal theory: he contributed significantly to the delay in the growth of the science of psychology, especially the delay in our Freud’s substitution of his universal Oedipal theory understanding of personality and psychopathology. His for one based on real traumas was a mixture of overwhelming need for fame (and his corollary need, to be truth and speculation. It revealed his wish for always correct) were, perhaps, satisfied. But his distortion of his mother’s love and her loss to a rival, though psychoanalysis from testable theory to a “cause” cast it into he made the need for mother-infant attachment the category of dubious beliefs. “How different things would “sexual” and substituted his father for the many have been if, instead of a cult-like ‘cause,’ psychoanalysis babies who took his place. At the same time, it had really been the science that it claimed to be…” (p. 114) made him into a warrior, a young Oedipus, in If only, Breger suggests, Freud could have continued to combat with a king. It also did away with real collaborate with Breuer. traumas, sexual or any other kind, and gave This book is a remarkably successful depiction of primary emphasis to instincts and fantasies. In a central aspect of Freud’s life. Breger has written it as a this new theory, it was not what actually happened scholar, yet it reads like a mystery, the solution to which is that was the source of fear, depression, and both compelling and tragic. symptoms—”the worries that robbed me of my youth”—but rather the young child’s drive for Joseph Barber pleasure, Oedipal fantasies, and sexual wishes that [email protected]

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COMMITTEE and TASK FORCE REPORTS: Membership Devon King, PhD

Membership Numbers involved with the division to develop a proposal to reduce The following provides final membership numbers for 2009, membership fees for Early Career Psychologists. Devon as well as numbers for 2010, paid through November 2009: King is also an ex officio member of the Task Force on Diversity. Members Final 2009 As of November The membership committee is actively recruiting 2009 new members, as Dave Gluck, William Gottdiener, Fellows 69 3 and Kathy Nathan all completed their second term on Regular APA Members 2623 1170 the committee as of December 31, 2009. The current Members (non APA) 30 membership committee members are: Devon King (Chair), Affiliates 35 12 Tanya Hess, and Johanna Malone (graduate student) At International Affiliates 22 4 present, Devon King is the liaison to the Committee on Students 273 31 Early Career psychologists. The committee would like to Lifetime Status 278 remind everyone that we are open to any ideas regarding Total: 3352 1498 membership recruitment and retention. The following are new (or re-joining) members Please note that our cumulative membership total for 2008 from July through December 2009. Please look over the was 3381, thus we lost 29 members from 2008 to 2009. list and be sure to welcome your new colleagues to our The membership committee has been actively Division.

Russell Adams, MSW E. Peabody Bradford, PhD Gregory Concodora, MEd Jeb Fowler, MA Christine Ahn, PhD Tori Branch, MA Brian Coughlin, PsyD Adam Frankel, MA Susan Alnasrawi, MA Cynthia Brink, MSW Alex Crumbley, PhD Miriam Frankel, BA Lauren Andriano, MA Janet Brito, MS Becky Crusoe, MA John Frazee, BSJ Patricia Ashley, MA Elizabeth Brocato, LCSW Carmen Cuevas-Burke, LCSW Amy Friedman, MSW Noa Ashman, MSW Peter Brown, MA Linda Cummings, MSW Jason Friedman Alejandro Avila Espada, PhD Leilani Buddenhagen Christal Daehnert, PhD Holly Friedman Housman, MSW Anna Badini, PhD Keith Burke Orion Davidoff, PhD Marilyn Frye, PhD Sheree Bailey, MA Ernest Burstein, JD Kathryn DeRoss, BA Toni Galace, BA Becky Bailey, PhD David Bush, PhD John DiMartini, PhD Shelley Galasso Bonanno, MA Lucinda Ballantyne, MSW Luca Campanelli Daphny Dominguez, MEd Viviana Galindo Diane Barclay, MSW Roberta Caplan, PhD Andree-Maryse Duvalsaint, MSW Barbara Gamble, MS Karen Barnes, MA Leslie Cardell, MSW Janelle Eckhardt, PhD Elizabeth Gaskill, MSW Heather Bass, PsyD Jason Carpenter, MA Eleanor Egan, MEd. Daniel Gaztambide, MA Michelle Bauer, MSW Leslie Case, PhD Kay English, MSW Karen Gennaro, MD Emily Baum Melissa Case-Vincent Mark Ettensohn, MA Gaiana Germani, PhD Nirit Avraham Bayrach, MA Dana Castellano, MA Carrie Evenden, PsyD Naama Gershy, M.A Judith Beale, MA David Castro, MSW Patricia Everett, PhD Brian Gieringer, MA Michael John Beck, PhD Abby Chack, MSW Gretchen Fair, MSW Jeanne Gilchrest, MA Ned James Beedie, MFA Jamie Citron, BA Stephen Farmer, PsyD Carol Ginandes, PhD Maya Belitski M. Damien Clark, MA Ahmed Fayek, PhD Irena Ginsburg, MS Karen Berberian, PhD Arthur Clark, BA Daniel Fishman, MA Sarita Gober, MSEd Meryl Berlin, PhD M. Damien Clark, MA Mary FitzGerald Joan Goldberg, PhD Kim Bernstein, PhD Heather Clitheroe, BA Margaret Flaget-Greener, MA Ethan Graham Suzanne Blaising, MSW Mary Coady-Leeper, PhD Patricia Florence, MSSW H. Mari Grande Barbara M. Bolas, PhD Robert Coffman, Phd Peter Folger, MSW Thomas Gray, PhD Mantsho Bolkanyo, MA Cenk Cokuslu, MBA Robert Ford, MS Marjorie Greenberg, MSW Claudia Bono, MA Jane Coles Ryter, PsyD Alessana Fordin Ellen Gussaroff, PhD Johanna Boyce, MSW Mary Collins, MA Sarah Forrester, MA Hillary Hamburger, MA

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Eugene Harding, MSW Cody Maddox, MA John Pope, MDiv Joseph Spinelli, MA Stephan Heckers, MD William Madison, PhD Sarah K. Pouliot, MA Sarah St. Onge, MA Gretchen Hegeman, MSW Rebecca Mair, PhD Lynn Preston, MA Shelley Stern, MSW Logan Hegg, BA Rafael Malaga Danielle Principato, BS Ann Stockman, PhD Lauri Heisler, MA Charla Malamed Shelley Probber, PsyD Rebecca Stone, MA Carolyn Herz, MA Aaron Malark, BA Emily Randall, MSW Lekeisha Sumner, PhD Eva Hill Risa Mandell, MSW Karen Randall, PhD Amy Sweigenberg, PsyD Leilani Hinton, BA Susan Masluk, MSW Samuele Raponi Jennifer Swensen, MA Joanne Hitchcock-Bridges, PhD Rae Mazzei, BS Bernard Ratigan, PhD Rainie Tabish, BA Ming-Hui Daniel Hsu, PhD Sonia Mbabazi, BA Jay Reid, MS Ilana Tal, PhD Marianne Hughes, MPS Brian McAlpine, MD Sujin Rhi, MA Anthony Tasso, PhD Sindhu Idicula, MD Noelle McCown, MA Michelle Rhodes, MA Lisa Temple, PhD Pilar Jennings, PhD Bryce McDavitt, BA Kathryn Rickard, PsyD Sarah Thompson, MA Devon Jersild, PhD Katharine McGovern, PhD Ricardo Rieppi, PhD Nathaniel Thorn, BA Berit Johnson, PhD Heather McKee, PsyD Shoshana Ringel, PhD Noa Tidhar, MA Brian Johnston Cindie McKenna, MSW Michael Ritter Ife Togun, MA Jeffrey Kalman, BS Veronica Medina, BA Maggie Robbins, MA Stephen Trichter, PsyD Cheryl Kalter, PhD, LPC Elizabeth Merrill, MSW Dennis Roberts, MA Marcel Trujillo Patrick B. Kavanaugh, PhD Dena Michnowich Geoffrey Robinson-Wood, PsyD Steven Tublin, PhD Audrey Kavka, MD Rune Moelbak, MA Karen Roser, PsyD Robin Turner, Psy.D K. Megan Kerbs, PsyD Merle Molofsky, MFA Charles Rossi Ann Ulmer, PhD Pearl Ketover Prilik, DSW Cheryl Morrier, PhD Louis Roussel, PhD Rachel Urbano, BA M. Elizabeth Kingsley, PhD James Mosher, MA Lauren Rubenstein, PsyD Laura Valenstein, PhD Camala Kirchen, BA Erin Mullin, PhD Eileen Rustgi, PhD Susan Varady, PhD Ortal Kirson-Trilling, PsyD Sean Murphy, MA E. Joy Sasson Gelman, PhD Sarah Vasiliauskas, MA Paulina Kisselev, PhD Debra Myers, MD Jeanette Sawyer Cohen, MS Raymond Vasser, PhD Gail Kleinman, MSW Christopher Nicholas, BS Victoria Schackelford, MA Jozef Vernic, MSW Rachel Kozlowski, MA Joseph Nicolosi, PhD Kay Schanzer, PhD Matthew Wadland, PsyD Jolie Krechman, PhD Katherine Noordsij, PhD Stephanie Schechter PsyD Amanda Webb Debra Kress, PsyD Maxine Nwigwe Raquel Schmidt, MS Marie P. Weinstein, PhD Ryan Kuehlthau, MA Anne O’Crowley, PhD Gerti Schoen Margaret Whilde, MA Debra Kuppersmith, LCSW Aurelio Ogilvie, MA Naomi Schofer-Mujica Jason Willoughby, MA Emily Kuriloff, PsyD Donna O’Keefe, MS Sarah Schrott, MSW Elizabeth Wilson, PhD Hea-Kyung Kwon, DA April Oler Howard Schwartz, MD Maria Winsborough Valerie Laabs-Siemon, MS Trevor Olson Jennifer Scroggie, MSN Peggy Wirth, MA Khouri-Padova Lama, MSW Tana Todd Olson, MA Adrienne Segall, MSW Nilufer Yalman Chanin, PhD Sharyn Leff, LCSW Pritesh Parbhoo, MA Laura Seitel, PhD Susan Yamaguchi, MSW M. Lee Leppanen, MS Paul Park, PsyM Stephen Seligman, DMH Masami Yamamoto Sharon Levin, MSW Cynthia Parker, MA Victoria Shackelford, MA Oksana Zadoro, MSW Alan Levy, PhD Gregory Pearson, BA Ashley Shenberger Mary Zimmerle, MA Ruth Lewis Jocelyn Peck, MA Nakyung Shin, MA Robin Li, MA Andrea Perelman, MA Margaret Ann Simmons, PhD Neta Livnat Regina Perich, MPsy Trevor Slocum, MA Dan Livney, Patrick Perkins, PhD Alan Slomowitz, PhD Laura Lochner, PhD Rivka Perlmann, PhD Tzachi Slonim, MA Nancy Long, PhD Susan Persson, PhD Anne-Lise Smith, MA Emily Loscalzo, MS Yaniv Phillips, PhD Scott Smith Eryn Lucas, PsyD Vara Pinnamaneni BA Lisa Sokoloff, MSW Kay Ludwig, MSW Gwendolyn Pla, PhD Lynn Somerstein, PhD William Macaux, PhD Craig Polite, PhD Shabana Soomar, MS Katherine MacVicar, MD Victoria Pollock, MA Mark Spergel, PhD

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Publications Henry M. Seiden, PhD, ABPP

estructuring Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Editors of the Review. These are people who would bring RWith the election of Bill MacGillivray to President- special skills and interests to the work. Other members of Elect and the need to replace him as editor of Psychologist- the Division will be invited to serve on the editorial board Psychoanalyst, we’ve taken the opportunity to re-think the of the Review, at the discretion of the editor. The editor of structure and functions of the newsletter. A subcommittee of the eNews may require editorial assistance but this is yet to the Publications Committee consisting of Bill MacGillivray, be determined. Larry Zelnick, Nancy McWilliams and myself has been hard The Division Board approved this plan at our at work on this. Two considerations have been paramount: January Meeting and it will be implemented gradually One, we want to make better use of the resources of the in the next three months. We think this plan, although internet for time-sensitive material. Two, we’d like to requiring some initial investment, will serve the Division’s continue the fine work Bill has done in making the newsletter needs as we move into the second decade of the 21st an attractive vehicle for discussion and exchange within our Century. The current plan is to have the eNews inaugural own community of members. The plan below was presented issue in the spring and the Division 39 Review will begin to and discussed with Executive Committee at its November with the summer issue. The names of these publications 2009 meeting. They received it warmly. There is a motion will be announced at the Spring Meeting. for approval on the agenda of the January 2010 meeting.

The Plan Task Force on Diversity We propose to split the Psychologist-Psychoanalyst into William A. MacGillivray, PhD, ABPP two separate publications, yet to be named, but referred n November 2009 the Executive Committee discussed a to in this report as the Division 39 eNews and Division 39 Inumber of issues recently emerging related to diversity Review: issues, including attracting and retaining graduate student and early career members, as well as making • An Internet based Division 39 eNews for time efforts to ensure that leadership positions on the Board sensitive announcements and reports to be and Committees reflect the broad array of diversity in available in a listserv-based, e-mail “flash” to be our profession. Mary Beth Cresci decided to form a published on a monthly basis. The eNews would Task Force on Diversity to provide more information be a joint project of the Publications and Internet to the Board and to make specific recommendations, if Committees. indicated, to increase diversity among our members and • A separate Division 39 Review to be available leadership. The charge of this Task Force is to develop in print and electronic format (pdf) for book a “report card” to assess whether the Committees and reviews, articles of intellectual and clinical interest, the Board of the Division are representative of the many discussions and debates, letters to the editor and constituencies within the Division and are providing etc. The tone and format of the Review would be an inviting environment to attract potential members of less formal than that of our journal, Psychoanalytic various diversities. These constituencies include members Psychology, and would be conceived of as an of various ages, educational backgrounds, ethnicities, in-print conversation among our members. The and sexual orientation. The task force will collect data Review would be published quarterly. concerning the degree to which the Division is inviting, getting, and maintaining the involvement of members from The Editors diverse backgrounds who can bring fresh perspectives to We put out a call for editors following a meeting of the our Division mission and objectives. The Task Force Publications Committee at the Spring Meeting. We received on Diversity will be able to collect data to answer the seven CVs and letters of interest and conducted telephone following questions: interviews. We proposed David Lichtenstein, a senior member of the Division, as our choice for Editor of the 1. Are the committees attracting new members to the Review. We proposed Tamara McClintock Greenberg a Division? Member-At-Large of our Division for Editor of the eNews. 2. Are the committees developing viable ideas and We have also identified several candidates who concerns to bring to the larger Division community are willing to serve on a Board of Editors as Contributing (e.g., by communicating on e-mail lists, publishing

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in the newsletter and/or journal, or bringing • Section VI: Its mission is to promote concerns to the Board)? psychoanalytic research, which tends to touch on 3. Are the committee members and their constituents several important areas including graduate students, moving into other positions of leadership on the early career professionals (especially academics), committees and on the Board of the Division? as well as the broader issue of involving research and researchers in our Division. At the present time there are nine members of the Task Force: Tanya Brown, Dennis Debiak, Bill Gottdiener, Here is a partial list of current committee activities related Tamara McClintock Greenberg, Bill MacGillivray, Sanjay to diversity: Nath, Heather Pyle, Usha Tummala, and Kris Yi. Ex officio members are: Marilyn Charles, Tanya Cotler, Mary • Publications Committee: The journal has an award Beth Cresci, Devon King, Ken Maguire, Scott Pytuk, and for an early career paper accepted for publication. Jonathan Slavin. The Committee also has a book prize for a first Although the Task Force is made up primarily of author. representatives from particular committees, it is important • Sexual Identities and LGBT Issues Committee: to keep in mind that these committees neither “own” This committee has forged strong relationships issues of diversity, nor do their specific concerns exhaust with Division 44 and other APA Divisions. the broad range of diversity. Finally, it is also important • Multicultural Committee: This committee has been to note that the committees are not the only groups within very involved in the Multicultural Summit and the Division that have initiatives designed to promote bringing the Division into dialog with those APA diversity broadly defined. One of our tasks will be to gather Divisions that make up the Summit leadership. information on current efforts of various groups in the • Graduate Student, Early Career, and Candidates Division and I hope to enlist Board members in providing Committees: These two committees have been this information as we move forward with this Task Force. involved in developing specific programs during In many respects, the Sections were and are the original the Spring Meeting to attract and interest members “battleground” for diversity within the Division and their and potential members who fit in one of these efforts in the past and ongoing have been important in categories. The activities have ranged from shaping how the Division sees itself and its mission. It informal receptions to special closed programs. would be enormously helpful to the Task Force for Section Early Career has a mentoring program to help Representatives to provide information concerning Section first-time presenters write an attractive proposal efforts in the area of diversity as well. I have asked each for the Spring Meeting. I believe Graduate Section Representative to send me a brief summary of Student Committee has an ongoing e-mail list and Section efforts. Toward that end, here is a partial list: communicates with APAGS. • Membership: This committee is developing plans • Sections II, VII, and VIII have represented to offer reduced membership fees for early career specific treatment modalities, that is children and professionals. adolescents, groups, and couples and families. While the Task Force has not been charged In April, I hope to report that the Task Force has to address diversity in terms of practice and accomplished the following: populations served, this is an important aspect of diversity broadly conceived. 1. A review of what the Division currently does in • Section IV: In one sense the most “diverse” promoting diversity subgroup of the Division, with 29 chapters across 2. A summary of the major concerns for the Division 21 states with about 1,000 Division members to address concerning diversity. and 2,000 non-Division members, with strong 3. Beginning a priority list, that is, what are the most representation among social workers and other important and/or doable initiatives? mental health professions. Section IV spends 4. A plan to collect data. about $1500 a year to provide stipends to graduate students (and now early career and candidate types) who are active in local chapters. • Sections V: Section V has early career awards.

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Candidate Outreach Heather Pyle, PsyD uring 2009, the Candidate Outreach Committee Planning for Spring Meeting 2010 is in progress. Dcontinued to expand its efforts to engage candidate The invited panel, “Close Encounter of a Psychoanalytic members of Division 39 as well as to potentially recruit Kind: Struggling with Boundaries in an Intimate Dyad,” new Division members from a wide range of Institutes. will feature Richard Geist. Additionally, we will continue Most visible of these efforts was our invited panel at the the tradition of joining with Sections I and V to cohost a Spring Meeting. We were pleased to have the opportunity Social Hour for candidates during the Spring Meeting. to offer, “From Couch to Institute: Transgenerational Current Committee Members are Heather Pyle Effects on Clinical Practice and Training” and were (Chair), Marilyn Charles, Andrea Corn. William Fried honored that the panel was supported by presentations (Section I liaison), Heather-Ayn Indelicato (Graduate from keynote speaker Haydee Faimberg, Kenneth Eisold, Student), Robert Prince (Section V liaison) and conference cochair JoAnn Ponder. Additionally, the Candidate Outreach Committee joined with Sections I and Education and Training V to cosponsor a small Social Hour for candidates during the Spring Meeting. In addition to providing a welcoming David Downing PsyD, ABPP space for candidates to meet each other, this also provided he primary goals of the Education and Training opportunity to offer informal remarks from each sponsor to TCommittee include: raise awareness of the benefits of belonging to the Division and to the Sections. • To work with other elements of the Division 39 Committee goals for 2010 will focus on outreach Board, associated Division Committees, and efforts to training institutions of diverse theoretical Division Sections to collaboratively assist the orientation and geographical location. A significant obstacle Division in efforts to enhance the representation to our outreach and recruitment efforts continues to be the of psychoanalytic perspectives in under-graduate difficulties of accessing contact information for a national and graduate-level psychology curricula; doctoral- population of candidates that change annually and is not and masters’-level practica/externship and contained within any single database. We also do not have doctoral-level internship programming, including any formal means of tracking any potential results of our involvement in the assessment and treatment of outreach efforts in relation to membership or involvement. under-served or marginalized patients/populations. As an attempt to address this issue in part, we are in the • To promote psychoanalytically-oriented research process of developing a Candidate Listserv through APA and scholarly activity; to encourage, by extension, that will allow us an economical and efficient forum to psychologists to pursue post-doctoral training in further our objectives and track our progress through list psychoanalysis. enrollment and activity. We anticipate that this listserv will • To develop a series of on-going Panels/Symposia be active prior to the Spring Meeting and plan to develop for the Division 39 Annual Spring Meeting to this modality throughout the year for candidate dialogue promote the Education and Training Committee’s and training-related postings. activities, and support its Mission as delegated by Additionally, we are currently working with the Board of Directors. Larry Zelnick to add the Candidate Outreach Committee information to the Division web site and are seeking to Efforts have slowed with respect to building a resource obtain listings on the sites of other affiliate sections/groups center of psychoanalytically oriented syllabi. We have not as a means of continuing to develop our internet presence added additional courses since the last report to augment The current Outreach Committee membership the extant graduate-level syllabi and, importantly, under- is noted below; however we have received permission graduate syllabi already available on the Committee’s from the president to supplement our core committee with section of the Division 39 web site. There have been additional candidate members in order to offer a platform some submissions from post-doctoral psychoanalytical to introduce candidates to active participation in Division institutes as well. The Committee Chairpersons strongly activities. We anticipate that the current recruitment process encourage members who teach in graduate or under- will be complete by March 1, 2010 to allow the new graduate academic programs; or practica, internship, candidate members ample opportunity to participate in some postdoctoral, or residency training programs as well as of the planning and promotion of Spring Meeting events. psychoanalytic institutes to submit their syllabi to David

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Downing ([email protected]) for review and posting. ouncil of epresentatives A PowerPoint presentation developed for one session of C R an undergraduate-level course, Psy100: Orientation to William A. MacGillivray Psychology, has been revised along with accompanying his is a brief recounting of my year on APA Council. As text/notes to assist anyone interested in adopting it for their Tyou may know, my term was foreshortened by my elec- use will find it posted on the Division web site. tion last year to be president of the Division. I confess it Beginning in October, a formal survey was was difficult to get involved in my role as a representative, developed and sent out to all doctoral programs in clinical at least partly as a result of my election. At the same time, psychology in the US and Canada. Graduate Assistants I have come to the conclusion that it takes a certain kind of continue to follow up with programs which have not person to get involved in APA governance, at least at the responded to secure as high a rate of return as possible. A Council level. As a result, this summary will clearly reflect gratifying number of programs have responded, to-date, my very personal experience over the last year. with some surprises with reference to PhD programs that The year started off well. The referendum (that was are inclusive of psychoanalytic thought. Also of note is the initiated after the August 2008 Council Meeting once again finding that some of programs would prefer not to be listed shunted aside Neil Altman’s resolution) calling for an end on the web site for Psychoanalytically Friendly Universities to psychologist involvement in interrogations passed late accessed through this address: psafriendlyuniv.tripod.com in the year and was implemented by then-APA president The Division 39 web site now maintains a link, under the Kazdin who wrote to President Bush and Defense Secre- Education and Training Committee. tary Gates to inform them of the change in APA policy that At the Spring Meeting in San Antonio David psychologists were no longer to work in detention facilities Downing and Martha Hadley were cochairs of a panel such as Guantánamo and other “black hole” sites unless “Against All Odds: Teaching Psychoanalytic Concepts they were working directly for the benefit of detainees. and Process to Graduate Students.” The panel reviewed The news got even better when it became evident that the different approaches to the education and training of incoming APA president James Bray was not going to delay graduate psychology students with a special focus on accepting the results of the referendum (as some advocated) addressing expected student resistances to understanding until the August Council meeting. It was an emotionally critical psychoanalytic concepts relevant to the core charged and gratifying scene when the entire Council not knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and practice. only voted to accept the results of the referendum, but to Participants in the panel provided specific examples of give a standing ovation to Laurie Wagner for her tireless teaching and training methods to bring home to students efforts to move APA to take a stand similar to every other the immediate personal and professional relevance of major health and mental health organization. But it was psychoanalytic theoretical concepts. downhill from there. Specific methods of gradual exposure to and The news that dominated Council in January was instruction in psychoanalytical concepts and process the realization of how far APA’s finances had sunk with approaches to countertransference awareness were the stock market “correction” late in 2008 and the implica- explicated. Instructor awareness of the expected skepticism tions of that for programs and initiatives. APA is a huge is a key factor in presenting techniques that are respectful operation with income largely derived from rents and of the types of skepticism seen in neophyte students, investments, and earning from its publications empire. be they undergraduate or graduate students. Presenters Although the membership in APA actually increased last reviewed evidence of validation of such approaches year, APA took a huge hit in the stock market and a minor in outcomes of student classroom learning and use of hit in decreased sales of journals and books. APA has es- countertransference awareness to alliance repairs. sentially two budgets: 1) the day to day operations of APA At the Spring Meeting in Chicago the panel will Central Office, its Directorates and Committees staffed by be, “From the Classroom to Academia to Psychotherapist its employees and so on, largely under the direction of our Office and Back Again,” with Martha Hadley, Marc Lubin CEO, Norman Anderson; and 2) the expenses that support and Jed Yalof as presenters. officers, committee members, etc., and their activities and Education and Training Committee members are initiatives. For example, the Education Directorate is led David Downing and Martha Hadley (Cochairs), Barry by Cynthia Belar and she is responsible for a wide range Dauphin, Harold B Davis, Andrew Harlem, Valentina of activities, including overseeing development of train- Harrell, Nancy Julius, Marc Lubin, Thomas Ross, Jed ing grants, development, publication and dissemination of Yalof, and Michael Jones. treatment guidelines, development of continuing education products, and so on. The association members, however, 41 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2010 guide Cynthia’s activities and priorities, through the elected the journal Nature that described APA policy as supporting Education Committee, as well as the other elected officers psychologist participation in interrogations, in direct con- including Council Representatives. All these members are tradiction of APA policy. essentially volunteers, but their travel and lodging expens- The next crisis was the increasing demand that APA es, etc. must be paid for under the budget. pull out of the Hyatt Manchester hotel contract for the San Why is this important? The major implication is Diego APA Convention with the discovery that the owner that you cannot “cut” one area of the APA budget without of that hotel was an influential donor to the campaign in affecting the entire organization. One major consequence November 2008 to deprive LGBT citizens of the right to of the operational budget cuts, for example, was the rec- marry in the state of California. This issue was only sim- ommendation, approved by Council, to suspend the Fall mering during the August meetings and many members 2009 meetings of the Boards and Committees. The major have expressed concern that APA officers have not actively reason for doing this was to save money. When Council pursued ways to get out of the hotel contract and instead members suggested, for example, that the committees and have given confusing and contradictory information con- boards might meet electronically, thereby saving on travel cerning APA’s decision to remain under contract to a hotel and lodging, the reply from the “other side” of APA, that is, where union organizers as well as gay rights advocates may from operations, was that the boards and committees must be picketing and demonstrating during our meetings. have APA staff to carry out their decisions, to follow up on Finally, there was the revelation that the Ethics their initiatives, and so on. With much grumbling, Council Committee, having deliberated for four years on its charge accepted significant cuts in it own activities and expendi- to clarify language in the Ethics Code, had boldly decided to tures in order to balance the budget. do nothing. The charge to that committee had been to resolve The news of our financial state has fluctuated over the discrepancy between the aspirational language of the the year and the really bad news was that some APA staff code and the actual provisions in the “enforceable” sections were terminated, a decision that was particularly painful of the code. See Frank Summers article in the Summer 2009 for an organization that is as close knit as the APA “fam- issue (pp. 25-26) for the full explication of the issue. Instead ily” is. Toward the close of the year, the latest word is that the committee “punted” with a narrow reading of its charge finances have improved and there had been an unexpected and refused to amend the code. Of course, many of our mem- increase in income due to the publication of the revised bers already have learned of the denouement of this farce. APA Publication Manual. This may mean some increased Through the efforts, once again, of Laurie Wagner, as well as discretionary funding (Carol Goodheart has had to give up other Council members, the inaction of the committee was her discretionary fund as president-elect and now as presi- set aside and the committee was “strongly encouraged,” shall dent!), but it appears that the budget will remain tight for we say, by Council as the Board of Directors, to reconsider the coming year. their action and report back in February. The other difficult news during the February Coun- So there is some good news to report at the end of cil meeting was the ongoing conflict and potential litigation this annus horribilis for APA, or at least relative good news between APA and the APA Insurance Trust (APAIT). This for many of our members. The Ethics Code has been revised has been a particularly painful issue for many members, and adherence to basic human rights has been restored to given the close ties between the two groups. After all, APA the language of the code. APA Council in February 2010 established the Trust and its former presidents sit on the Trust also voted to move the Council meetings out of the Hyatt Board. The conflict has to do with APA’s insistence that it Manchester and to accommodate all Divisions (including our must have access to information about APAIT products in own) who have requested not to have meetings, receptions, order to carry out its fiduciary responsibility. The concern is or suites located in that hotel. President Obama and Secretary that if APAIT were to be sued for some malfeasance, APA Gates have been informed of APA policy to forbid psycholo- might potentially be drawn in as well. APAIT contends that gist involvement in interrogations in Guantanamo. And this would not happen and APA has no right to essentially maybe APA is seeing the light financially as well. proprietary information. APA has taken the position that its So my year on Council was mainly spent admiring only recourse is to litigate the issue and allow the courts to the efforts of our Division representatives patiently working decide the issue. After a year, the two organizations remain behind the scenes through caucuses and sidebar negotia- deadlocked in their negotiations. tions to keep our governing body functioning and moving in The bad news continued after February. The first (mostly) one direction. It is yeoman’s work and I am looking source of concern was the apparent failure of APA to forward to my retirement from this important effort. implement the new APA policy on psychologist involvement in interrogations. More alarming was an editorial in

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SECTION REPORTS: Women, Gender, and Psychoanalysis Judith Logue, PhD

ection III is enthusiastically going into the future to brainstorm and consider various options to update Swith some new and innovative ideas. While we our mission, and to attract and retain members. We are are energetically working to increase our membership, preoccupied with the loss of our vote on the Division 39 we continue to address contemporary issues of gender Board, loss of financial support for travel and lodging at the identities and sexualities and relevant social concerns, such mid-winter Board meeting, and our non-juried program at as reproductive rights. Dr. Royce Jalazo, psychoanalytic the two annual conferences. We make suggestions for board psychotherapist in Boca Raton, Florida, who is also a Web consideration, which include investigating the feasibility of designer, is revamping the web site of Section III. It will be changes in the membership requirement for vote eligibility, ready by the end of February and will highlight publications as well as one fee for all section memberships. We are using and books by our members. The new web site is for the difficult economic climate as an opportunity to develop increased communication, in addition to our group listserv, new, creative, and progressive ideas and goals and are most and it will be more user-friendly. fortunate to have a dynamic board to generate ideas and act Our president, Marilyn Metzl, generated interest on new actions for continued success and future growth in Division 39 and Section III on her trip to Mongolia, and we hosted two women psychiatrists from Mongolia at Local Chapters our San Antonio meeting. We have their photographs and information on our Web site, so please see our updated William A. MacGillivray, PhD, ABPP information on www.section-three.org. ection IV is the organizational “home” for the 29 local A submission for APA San Diego in August 2010 is Schapters of the Division. Our Senate and Open Meetings in the works. The subject is trauma as it relates to sex, the during the Spring Meeting are important venues for chapter body, object choice, and gender. If accepted, Dennis Debiak, officers from around the country to get together and share Ellen Toronto, Lynne Harkless, and Royce Jalazo will give what is working (or not) in their groups and to take away presentations. Judy Logue is the chair. We are most hopeful some good ideas to try in their area. While local chapter rep- this panel is accepted. resentatives to Section IV are specifically invited, any local Our April 2009 presentation in San Antonio chapter member is welcome to contribute to the discussion. included Dr. Marilyn Moore’s research on flirting and We had officer elections in the fall and now have a nonverbal communication in the social scene and in our new secretary for the Section, Jay Moses from Philadelphia offices. Marilyn Metzl coordinated, chaired, and was the Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (PSPP). Jay has discussant for this well-attended and lively program. been an active member of his local chapter, chairing pro- Marilyn Metzl chaired our program in Toronto gram committees and working on the budget committee. A where Ellen Toronto, editor of our section’s 2005 book, graduate of University of Tennessee (which means that three Into the Void: Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender Free of the four Section officers are graduates of the Tennessee Case, revealed the gender of the case of “T.” We spent program!), he has worked in inpatient settings and with the five years guessing and obsessing about the gender with a homeless, as well as maintaining a private practice. He is number of different rationales. So we were quite relieved currently a candidate at the Institute for Relational Psycho- that the suspense was finally over. analysis. Welcome, Jay. Section III is developing a project for interdivisional The Graduate Student Initiative (GSI) continues and intersectional collaboration. Among the projects this year and four local chapter members were nominated considered with Section IX are the reproductive rights to receive stipends from Section IV to help defray cost of of women, which are threatened. We are also planning to attending the Spring Meeting in Chicago: Paulina Kisselev approach Division 51, Men and the Masculinities, which (Pacific Northwest), Kari Fletcher (Minnesota), Joanne Gold has a group of women led by Holly Sweet, and Division 35, (Baltimore) and Michael Jones (Chicago Open). Psychology of Women. Any Division 39 member is eligible to form a local Section III currently has 111 members. We have a group and apply for local chapter membership. A Local committee project with plans for a telephone membership Chapter Handbook is available on the Division web site, drive. In part, because of our ongoing membership http://www.division39.org/sec_com_pdfs/SectionIVHand- crisis since my presidency in 2003, we are meeting with book.pdf, or contact any officer of the Section: Jack Barlow, the Committee on Sexualities and Gender Identities Barry Dauphin, Jay Moses, or me.

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Section IX Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility Alice Lowe Shaw, Ph.D.

rom the first of January, the day I took over the Section American Foreign Policy: A Psychoanalytic Approach;” FIX presidency from Frank Summers, there have been and Paul H. Elovitz, “Psychoanalytic Reflections on a range of passionately expressed ideas, suggestions and the Myth of American Exceptionalism in a Time of debate regarding existing and new issues and projects for Recovery While Jobs are Lost.” Our section members our attention. With 215 dues paying members in 2009, will be presenting papers as well as keynote addresses, and new members in 2010, we have a wealth of resources; throughout the Spring Meeting. talent, energy and skills to bring to the areas in which we We hope to see you at the reception we will be focus. cosponsoring with the Committees for Multicultural The issue of psychologist participation in torture Concerns and Sexualities and Gender Identities. Enjoy the and the need to modify the APA ethics policies to insure music of Jimmy La Fave, appetizers and a chance to get psychologists do not participate in, enable or turn a blind better acquainted with the people behind our e-mail posts. eye to abusive interrogations in detention centers, has Section IX members have offered dynamic, been a primary and well publicized effort on the part of thoughtful, and significant psychoanalytic voice to Section IX as well as other Division 39 members. We important issues of our time. Are we activists? Join us as will continue to monitor the pragmatic application of the we continue to think and reflect, debate and develop. referendum passed by the APA membership, as well as the changes to Ethics Code 1.02 (eliminating the so-called “Nuremberg Defense”) which is anticipated. Additionally, some Section IX members are working to develop an international coalition of Health Professionals Against Torture (HPAT). Although the issue of torture has been a focus for several years, section members have put forth a number of other areas for the application of our psychoanalytic understanding, social justice conviction and activist inclination: Women’s reproductive rights and self-determination; the military, the experience and needs of veterans and their families; the ideology of American Exceptionalism and current economic realities; psychologists in domestic prison settings; access to optimal treatment and self determination for mental health clients; continuing engagement with the Gaza Community Health Program; and coalition building. The Section IX Board is committed to enhancing the participation of section members in the areas of their interests. Please join us for our Section IX invited panel at the Division 39 Spring Meeting “American Exceptionalism: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on its Costs and Decline,” chaired by Nancy Caro Hollander, with papers by Dr. Hollander, “Neoliberal Subjectivities: Psyche in a Political Economy in Crisis;” Frank Summers, “American Exceptionalism in

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SECTION REPORTS: Oklahoma Laurel Van Horn, PhD he Oklahoma Society For Psychoanalytic Studies wishing to enroll for next year. Many OSPS members are Tlaunched the 2009-2010 program year in September volunteering their time as teachers and/or case conference with its annual Ethics Seminar. Arlene Schaefer, Oklahoma leaders. Finally, OSPS is offering stipends to help two of our City psychologist in private practice presented on the topic: member/students attend the Division 39 Spring meeting. “Ethics, Regulatory and Forensic Issues in Mental Health Practice: A Review and Update.” Dr. Schaefer is a dynamic Appalachian speaker and respected as an expert in this challenging area of William A. MacGillivray, PhD, ABPP our field. e are more than halfway through the Appalachian Psy- In conjunction with the University of Oklahoma Wchoanalytic Society (APS) program season and have Film and Video Studies Program and the Sam Noble had some notable “firsts” as well as continuing successes Museum of Natural History, we hosted a film presentation with our major projects and initiatives. To review our “regu- in October. Frank James, author and director, presented lar” schedule, so far this year we have had a Fall Conference the film,A Gift of Time, a documentary following the last on adult attachment with Carol George, “Attachment and months of his mother’s life and the family’s response. Carole Trauma: Perspectives From the Adult Attachment Picture Eliason, psychoanalyst and OSPS member was discussant System,” and three Saturday Morning Seminars: “Great with Mr. James conducting a very poignant question and Papers in Psychoanalysis: Masud Khan’s ‘The Evil Hand,’” answer session with the audience. In November, OSPS was with Jim Gorney; “Developmental Considerations in the fortunate to have Robert Carrere, psychoanalyst from the Treatment of Gay Men,” with Gary Grossman; and “Merlin Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), and the Mercurial Nature of Jungian Analysis,” with Doug speak to us on the very challenging topic, “Working Tyler. Dr. George’s presentation was somewhat different for Psychoanalytically with Substance-Abusing Clients.” To us as it was the first time in a number of years with a pre- begin the New Year, 2010, Mary Ann Coates presented the senter who was primarily a researcher rather than a clinician. film,Searching for Angela Shelton and offered insightful It was a fascinating exercise in the limits of both perspectives discussion over the course of the two-day program. and the need to recognize that each has its own “territory.” Seminars for February through May are scheduled Jim Gorney and Doug Tyler are APS members especially and include Tim Zeddies, psychoanalyst from Austin, Texas, skilled at presenting their particular perspective on psycho- speaking on “The Boomerang Effect: Relationality on the analytic theory and treatment. Doug also brought Jung’s Red Couch and in the Arm-Chair” and conducting a seminar the Book for our perusal as part of his presentation. following day on “Reflections on Relational Dilemmas: A We had two “firsts” this year. For our membership Case Presentation.” Donna O’Keefe, Oklahoma candidate at meeting, Macario and Mabelle Giraldo led the group in a PINC, will present clinical material. discussion of our attachment to, and investment in, APS March will offer a panel discussion: “Through and the conflicts and strains that result from attempting to Three Lenses: Varied Perspectives on an Analytic Hour”, maintain a psychoanalytic perspective (and practice!) in a featuring OSPS members Kay Ludwig, Marian Stephenson, culture that increasingly dismisses reflection and thought. Laura Lochner, and Erika Miller. In April, Dale Boesky, As noted above, Gary Grossman, a psychoanalyst from San psychoanalyst from Birmingham, Michigan will present Francisco presented at an APS Seminar. He also presented at on the topic of “Analytic Disagreements in Context” with a public talk later in the day, addressing parenting of gay and John Andrus presenting clinical material. We will close the lesbian teenagers at a meeting we cosponsored with Parents, year with Maureen Murphy, from PINC, talking to us about Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). The “Resiliency.” success of this public presentation has energized our board We are indebted to both Sharon Varnum and Jeff to consider other presentations in the community next year, Fine-Thomas, chair and co-chair of the program committee, including a talk on home and homelessness in conjunction for the diverse and excellent educational offerings we’ve with local government and grassroots groups. had these past two years. In addition to these, Michael Once again this year, APS will help a number of Kampschaeferand Stephen Miller, cochairs of the Education our graduate student members attend the Spring Meeting in and Training Committee, have led the organization of Chicago and plan to have a contingent of six students at the another year-long course in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy meeting, including one, Scott Swan, who will be presenting a which is well underway with maximum enrollment. The paper on therapeutic assessment using the Adult Attachment response was so large that we have a waiting list of persons Interview.

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Philadelphia Society of Psychoanalytic Psychology Jeanne Seitler, PsyD and Julie Nemeth, PhD s the first decade of the new millennium comes concerns regarding “Childism.” In December 2009, we Ato completion, we at the Philadelphia Society of honored Linda Hopkins for the PSPP Achievement Award Psychoanalytic Psychology wish to share “our state of at our Annual meeting, after which Charles Ashbach affairs” with you. We find our membership continues from presented his thoughts on the “Paradox of Narcissism.” The year to year to include approximately 225 members and PSPP annual Winter Program was held in January 2009. is meeting the projected income and expenses outlined in We had an outstanding attendance for Nancy McWilliams our 2009 proposed budget. In 2010, the board will consider who presented a paper on treating patients with paranoid new ways to build the financial infrastructure of our personalities and commented on a case by Burton Seitler. organization, including establishing a modest endowment These larger programs complemented our on-going to be used to fund need and merit scholarships and more and well-established brunch series. Hosted by current PSPP ambitious programming than has been possible in the past members (in their homes), these brunches offer members due to a “dues-based-mostly” income structure. an opportunity to hear local analytic thinkers present on In November 2008, the board met for a vision interesting topics. Some examples of the brunch topics retreat. Wanting to garner the wisdom and leadership of the include how to write analytically oriented case material, larger PSPP community, the board invited the past PSPP treating borderline patients, and using mindfulness with presidents to join. The first part of the retreat included patients. a dialogue with the past-presidents about such topics The mentoring program, designed to pair PSPP as PSPP’s history and mission, its relationship with the members with graduate students, continues to thrive under the stewardship of Barbara Goldsmith. Currently, we Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education (PCPE), have 27 pairs of mentors-mentees and they celebrate their the need for outreach initiatives (e.g., graduate students and program with a beautiful brunch held each spring. developing a speaker’s bureau) and ways to organize and Finally, we are working to finish revising our implement the board committees. outdated bylaws by the end of Spring 2010, and continue As a direct result of the vision meeting, PSPP to work towards developing a “flowchart/timeline” to has actively collaborated with PCOP to bring a series of guide our board responsibilities and goals each year so presentations to Philadelphia. In November 2008, PSPP that as board members come and go, an outline exists to co-sponsored a program with the Philadelphia Center of streamline board activities and bring about more efficiency Psychoanalysis, which featured a presentation by Jody and success. We intend to enter the second decade of the Messler Davies and in Fall 2009, a cosponsored program millennium as a “lean, mean psychoanalytic-influencing featuring Ed Tronick. PCPE spearheaded a related reading machine.” Watch out Division 39! And . . . we’ll see you group and cosponsored program the following month soon in Chicago! with Karlen Lyons-Ruth, and Jacqueline Gottlhold. The programs were well received and more such collaborative programs are being planned. Our newest initiative has been commissioning a local web site designer to help our newly formed media committee to update our web site. Our revised web site includes two new and important features: 1) an on-line directory (with the opportunity for the members to renew their memberships on-line) and 2) the option to register for programs on-line. In addition to our web site, we continued to communicate and reach out to our membership through our quarterly newsletter, Currents. In terms of our traditional PSPP programs, our annual fall meeting in October 2008 included PSPP awarding Elisabeth Young-Bruehl for her scholarly contributions to the analytic community, after which Dr. Bruehl gave a riveting presentation on her compassionate

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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes Hilton Palacio Del Rio, San Antonio Texas Thursday, April 23, 2009

Present: M. Cresci, President; N. McWilliams, Past Conference, sponsored by CODAPAR, in January. President; Dennis Debiak, Secretary; Marsha McCary, She felt that it was very valuable to attend this Treasurer; Council Reps: J. Alpert, L. Barbanel, J. Darwin, meeting. W. MacGillivray, D. Morris, N. Thomas, L. Wagner; • Dr. Zelnick has been nominated for a position on Members–at–Large: M. Charles, N. Altman, T. Greenberg, CODAPAR and is the first choice on the clinical M. Metzl, J. Slavin, L. Zelnick, A. Steinberg; Section Reps: slate. Dr. Darwin will be finishing her term on this W. Fried, I; J. Bellinson, II; J. Logue, III; D. Downing, IV; committee. R. Prince, V; A. Halton, VIII; K. Rosica, IX; Guests: A. • August APA meeting: The Division gave one hour Bernstein, A. Celenza, B. Dauphin, A. Halton, M. Jacobs, of programming time to the Convention Within a E. Jurist, M. Kelly, M. Murphy, J. Ponder, L. Porter, S. Convention and Dr. Wilma Bucci will be presenting Rubin, H. Seiden, A. Suth, P. Tummala-Nara during this hour. • Division 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of I. Welcome, Call to Order and Introductions: Dr. Social Issues) organized a preconvention meeting Cresci called the meeting to order at 9:03 AM. (Psychology Community Engagement Initiative) to focus on how psychology initiatives and community II. Attendance: Dr. Debiak initiatives might find common ground. Dr. Richard A. Absent: Dr. Gottdiener (Section VI Representative; Ruth will be representing Division 39 in this effort. no substitute), Dr. Brok • Division 39 is one of the sponsors of a Same-Sex B. Substitution: Dr. Altman for Dr. Karon (Member at Wedding Ceremony at the APA convention on Large) Thursday from 8 pm to 12 midnight. In order to C. Substitution: Dr. Kelly and Dr. Logue for Dr. allow Executive Committee members to attend this Toronto (Section III Representative) ceremony, the EC meeting will be held from 4 to 7:30 on Thursday. III. Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Board of • Drs. Cresci and Wagner will represent Division 39 at Directors Meeting, January 17, 2009: Dr. Debiak the Future of Psychology Practice Summit, May 14- 17 in San Antonio. Motion 1: To Approve the Draft Minutes of the Board • Over 700 members responded to the Business of Directors Meeting of January 17, 2009 as submitted. of Practice Survey, which represents 23% of Action: Approved with one abstention. membership. Support from APA for the data analysis has been delayed. Dr. Cresci will contact APA and IV. Announcements: Dr. Cresci encourage them to finalize the results. • The Division has signed contracts for the Spring Motion 2: To elect Neil Altman, PhD, to finish the term of Meetings for 2011, 2014, and 2017 at the Sheraton on Bertram Karon, PhD, as Board Member at Large. Action: 54th Street and 6th Avenue in New York City. This is a Elected unanimously. change from the Waldorf property. • HIT Legislation – APAPO asks that the Division • Dr. Brok was unable to attend the meeting due to support this legislation. medical reasons. The Division sent him flowers. • APA chose not to send a representative to the U.N. • The Council Rep seat vacated by Dr. Ramirez has been Conference on Racism. filled by Dr. Dolores O. Morris. • APA President, James Bray, has clarified that the two • The division made a donation to the APA Foundation psychologists discussed in recent news stories about in memory of the mother of APA President, James torture at Guantanamo were not APA members. Dr. Bray, PhD Altman clarified that the news story and Dr. Bray’s • Dr. King, Membership Chair, gave birth to a baby boy. statement left out the fact that two APA members were • Dr. Cresci attended the Division Leadership involved in establishing the SERE Program.

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V. Ethics Committee Report: Dr. Celenza elaborated the restructuring of our Website and Newsletter, on her written report. This committee also responded obtain design consultation, and bring a specific to the proposed revision of APA’s Ethics Code 1.02 proposal, including a specific request for funding, and 1.03, with Dr. Frank Summers being the lead back to the Board of Directors for final approval as author and Drs. Wagner and Cresci being contributing soon as possible. Action: Passed unanimously. authors. VI. Treasurer’s Report: Dr. McCary discussed her 2. Psychoanalytic Psychology: Dr. Jurist reviewed written reports that appeared in the Board packet. Dr. his written report, which was distributed at the Alpert recognized Dr. McCary’s able stewardship of meeting. our finances. C. 2010 Spring Meeting: Dr. Andy Suth addressed the Board and discussed the theme and plans for the 2010 Motion 3: To increase the Division 39 publication fee Division 39 Spring meeting, of which he is co-chair. from $40 to $75 for APA dues exempt members. Action: He discussed the electronic proposal submission Passed with two no votes process(,) and plans to make certain papers are available to the membership prior to the conference(,) The suggestion was made that a letter be sent to our for more substantive discussion. dues exempt members asking them for donations, if D. Continuing Education Committee: Dr. Porter they are able to make them. thanked the board and the steering committee for their support and work behind the scenes to make VII. Reports CE happen at the 2009 Spring Meeting. Dr. Porter A. Multicultural Concerns Committee and CEMA: referred to her written report and commented that Dr. Tummala-Narra gave a follow-up on the January local chapter activity is increasing, but online National Multicultural Summit., Div. 39 members program is struggling. She believes it is not a viable attending the Summit expressed opinions that the program at this time and recommends disbanding the Division’s contributions were neither recognized online program until a later time. Board members nor appreciated. Summit organizers asserted their were reluctant to give up the Online CE program commitment to improve this with regard to the next and instead talked about how it might be expanded Summit. Dr. Tummala-Narra asked the organizers for and better publicized as part of the renovation of the the following: Division’s Web site. Also, the Division would like 1. Psychoanalytic keynote speaker to learn more about the Future of Psychoanalytic 2. Division 39 proposal reviewers Education conference planning process, before 3. Division 39 Difficult Dialogue facilitators agreeing to sponsor CE credits for psychologists at 4. Division 39 Invited Panel (from) this conference. Dr. Tummala-Narra also attended the CEMA E. Nominations and Elections Committee: Dr. meetings. She announced that CEMRAT grants are McWilliams reported the 46 nominations were made. frozen; the APA search for a chief diversity officer has The slate of candidates is: been put on hold. Two open positions currently exist 1. President-Elect: Bill MacGillivray on CEMA, one for an Asian American male and an 2. Secretary: Alice Bernstein and Dennis Debiak Asian American female psychologist. 3. Member at Large: Jill Bellinson, Marilyn Charles, B. Publications Committee: Dr. Seiden discussed his David Downing, Elizabeth Goren, JoAnn Ponder, written report. 703 Division members are subscribed Henry Seiden, Joseph Schaller, and Frank to PEP.-WEB. Summers. 1. Proposal to Restructure the Division’s Newsletter E. Graduate Student Committee: Dr. Slavin reported and Web site: Drs. Seiden, MacGillivray and on how this committee promoted attendance by Zelnick discussed their written proposal. Dr. graduate students and created programming for Kieffer commended Dr. MacGillivray on his graduate students at this meeting. He also discussed editorship of the Newsletter. Dr. Slavin cautioned other initiatives including a mentoring program and us that electronic versions of Newsletters are often other resources for graduate students that will appear not more timely than print versions. on the Web site. F. Program Committee: Dr. Darwin reviewed locations Motion 4: To constitute a joint ad hoc committee of for upcoming meetings and discussed how there is the Internet and Publications committees to pursue less non-juried time available and that sections and

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committees MUST get their materials in on time Relations in Psychology—Proposal for in order to be given non-juried time. Dr. Kieffer International Affiliates to the Division: Dr. reviewed plans for the program at APA in Toronto, Jacobs distributed and elaborated on her written including an effort to feature papers by Early Career report. Psychologists. Dr. Darwin’s term as Progam chair will 1. Dr. Slavin suggested that we spend the money end at the end of 2009 and the Division is searching requested below on promoting our Spring Meetings for someone to fill that position. Awards Committee: abroad, given that $500 might not be a large Dr. Murphy discussed her written report. Dr. Slavin enough amount to help international affiliates get to suggested that we set aside time with no competing our meetings. programming at each Spring meeting (e.g. Thursday 2. It was also suggested that we form more afternoon, before President’s address and opening international local chapters through Section IV that reception) specifically for giving out awards. Also, it might publicize our meetings and activities. was decided that the award recipient will continue to 3. The Task Force emphasized that it is important for give a paper at the meeting. Dr. Bellinson suggests the Division to create a spirit of exchange. that we rename the Scholarship/Research Award. 4. In addition, it was suggested that the Division try F. Federal Advocacy Coordinator and to find ways to help international attendees find Interdivisional Task Force on Managed Care: Dr. affordable housing. MacGillivray discussed the report submitted by Dr. Frank Goldberg. Motion 5: Division 39 will encourage all sections and G. Spring Meeting Report: Drs. Ponder and Rubin committees to consider issues relevant to international and their steering committee were recognized by the psychological/psychoanalysis in their future initiatives Board for their hard work at putting together this (e.g., international themes in programs and support of impressive meeting. international affiliates who are interested in their areas of H. Membership Committee: Dr. Marilyn Charles concern). Action: Passed with 2 abstentions. elaborated on the written report submitted by Dr. King, Membership Chair. Dr. Cresci noted that the Motion 6: Division 39 will place an announcement in the membership trend is a positive one. APA Division 52 International Psychology Bulletin about I. Early Career Professionals Committee: Dr. membership in Division 39. Action: Passed unanimously. Charles discussed how proposals submitted by ECP’s will be tagged and considered for designated slots in Motion 7: Division 39 will allocate a small grant the 2010 Spring Meeting program. ($500.00) for travel by international affiliates to spring 1. Financial Considerations for ECP’s: Dr. Cresci meetings. The allocation of the funds will be considered suggested that we need a reduction of ECP dues for by the Task Force on CIRP and presented to the Division this very important constituency. She suggested we 39 Board for approval each January. Action: Passed: 18 should offer a rebate of $45 for ECP’s and we keep yes votes, 2 no votes, 4 abstentions track of their date of terminal degree graduation. 2. Ruth Helein reported that graduate students who B. Public Relations Task Force Report: Dr. Thomas graduate must rejoin the Division through our referred to her written report. Central Office and therefore it might be possible for us to offer reduced dues for ECP’s for the first year. IX. Section Issues 3. Dr. MacGillivray suggested that we give ECP’s a A. Section II Bylaws Revision: Dr. Bellinson gave $95 credit toward attending the Spring Meeting. background on Section II’s bylaw revision process Discussion focused on how to create a greater sense of community in the Division. Motion 8: To approve the revision to the Section II bylaws 4. Dr. Cresci asked the ECP committee to further as submitted. Action: Passed unanimously investigate the numbers of ECP in the Division, find out more about their needs and what might B. Section Bylaws Issue: Dr. MacGillivray reported have helped them better make the transition from that Sections I, II and III are in compliance with graduate student to ECP member. regard to membership categories in their bylaws. Section VIII is working on this. VIII. Old Business C. Section Membership Numbers: Discussion ensued A. Task Force on APA Committee on International regarding Section membership. Dr. Bellinson said that

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we should give the Sections a chance to build up their are required, one year would no longer need to be membership numbers. Sections have until the end of postdoctoral. I/O psychologists will be eligible for this year to get their numbers up to at least 150 to be licensure. Dr. Barbanel is asking Division 39 to eligible for voting representation at board meetings, support the Model Licensure Act non-juried presentation time at Spring Meeting, as well as reimbursement for travel to the January Motion 11: To support the changes proposed by the Model Division board meeting for Section Representatives. Licensure Task Force. Action: Passed with 12 yes votes, 3 D. Section Finances: Dr. McCary reported that there no votes, and 8 abstentions are two sections that have not had any activity in their bank account in two years, and do not have a C. Dr. Morris reported that Dr. Bray has formed a designated treasurer committee to explore and understand the reasons that APA membership has failed to provide the necessary Motion 9: To freeze the bank accounts of sections VI and 2/3rds votes to change the APA bylaws so the four VII until Division Treasurer attests that the section has major ethnic minority psychological associations will a fully functioning treasurer Action: Passed with one have voting seats on the Council of Representatives.. abstention D. Dr. Wagner reported that Dr. Kasdin appointed an advisory group to provide recommendations for the E. Updates on Sections III, VI and VII: Drs. Kelly and implementation of the referendum regarding the Kieffer described the status of Sections III and VIII, prohibition against psychologists’ presence in settings respectively, in recruiting members. Also, Dr. Debiak which lack the protection of US and international reported that prior to this meeting he communicated law. The referendum was passed by the membership with Dr. Gottdiener, who said that Section VI is in September 2009.. The advisory group’s report having some difficulty recruiting members. They have is complete and may be addressed at the February not collected dues for three years and have not had an council meeting. election this year. Dr. Gottdiener also reports that he is working to revitalize Section VI. Motion 12: To endorse Melba Vasquez, Ph.D., for F. Section IV Request: Dr. Dauphin President-Elect of APA Action: Passed unanimously.

Motion 10: To approve the creation of a new local XII. New Business chapter: The Sacramento Valley Association for A. California Psychological Association Issue: Dr. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Action: Passed Jacobs asked for Division 39 members in California unanimously. to become active in CPA to combat the governor’s proposal to collapse mental health professional boards X. Consortium Report: Dr. Wagner discussed her report. into one entity, which might have a negative effect XI. Council of Representatives Report: Drs. Alpert, on the practice of psychoanalysis. Our California Barbanel, Darwin, MacGillivray, Morris, Thomas and members’ names will be provided to CPA. Wagner: B. Education and Training Committee Report: Dr. A. Dr. Alpert described the grave financial situation at Downing reported how the Model Licensure Act may APA, which has led to $11 million in cuts in APA’s affect pre-doctoral practica and internships. $100 million budget. Budget cuts were described. C. Future Spring Meeting Issues: Dr. Fried asked if the Also, there is a confidential dispute between APA and themes of future spring meetings could be announced APAIT, but this will have no impact on those who earlier than one year ahead of time. Dr. Cresci are insured by APAIT. Revised guidelines for child explained the reasons for announcing the next year’s custody evaluations were approved. meeting theme at the current year’s Spring meeting. B. Dr. Barbanel reported that the Model Licensure Act has been revised and the school psychology XIV. Adjournment: There being no further business to exemption is controversial. Most School come before the board at this time the meeting was Psychologists are M.A. level, but can still call adjourned at 4:30 PM. themselves psychologists. The draft document removes this exemption, but still allows M.A. school Secretary: Dennis Debiak, Psy.D. psychologists to function as psychologists in schools. Recorders: Janet L. Owen and Ruth E. Helein Also, while two years of supervised experience

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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes SoHo Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Friday, August 7, 2009

Present: M. Cresci, President; N. McWilliams, Past V. Treasurer’s Report: Dr. McCary President; M. McCary, Treasurer; Council Reps: J. Alpert, A . Review of Budget Process: Dr. McCary summarized L. Barbanel, J. Darwin, W. MacGillivray, D. Morris, N. her written report that was submitted to the board for Thomas, L. Wagner; Members-at-Large: N. Altman, A. Brok, their review. She highlighted specific line items of M. Charles, D. Downing (for L. Steinberg), C. Kieffer, M. interest. She also reported that the San Antonio Spring Metzl, L. Zelnick, Section Reps: W. Fried, I; J. Bellinson, II; meeting showed a loss of $25,000 instead of a profit of E. Toronto, III; Barry Dauphin, IV; J. Tabin (for R. Prince), $17,000. Publication royalties are considerably higher V; C. Kieffer, VII; Guests: G. Gerber, D. King, Absent: D. than anticipated. She anticipates a “break-even” budget Debiak, Secretary; Drs. Greenberg, Slavin and Steinberg, year. Members-at-Large; W. Gottdiener, Section VI; A. Halton, B. Reimbursement Guidelines: Dr. McCary directed Section VIII; R. Prince, Section V; K. Rosica, Section IX. the board’s attention to the reimbursement guidelines included in her report. I. Welcome and Call to Order: Dr. Cresci called the meeting to order at 8:45 a.m. She welcomed the members VI. Council of Representatives Report: Drs. Alpert, and guests. Barbanel, Darwin, MacGillivray, Morris, Thomas and Wagner: Council Representatives reported on issues that II. Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Board of have come before Council. Directors Meeting, April 23, 2009: A. Dr. Barbanel reported on the financial situation of APA. There is a serious operating budget deficit, and APA Motion 1: To Approve the Draft Minutes of the BOD is taking very aggressive steps to correct the situation. Meeting of April 23, 2009 as submitted. Action: Passed. Layoffs of staff and other cuts have already been placed in motion. She also commented on the LGBT III. Announcements: Dr. Cresci issue, Council did affirm the report from the Task A. Various members of the Board are attending APA Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual functions during the Convention. Orientation that concluded that reparative therapies are B. The Division has been involved in the Pre-Convention not effective and, in some cases, harmful. activities. B. Dr. Alpert reported on the strategic plan of APA. C. The Division supported the Wedding for Us All The Council was able to approve the Goals and sponsored by Division 17 Objectives of the strategic plan. There were concerns D. Dr. Cresci will represent the Division at the Freud regarding the Core Values, and Drs. Alpert and Centennial Event. Barbanel will serve on a committee to work on those E. Dr. Bellinson will assume the chair position of the issues. Program Committee at the end of 2010. C. Dr. MacGillivray distributed a set of notes on Council F. Dr. Zelnick has been appointed to CODAPAR. activity. G. Dr. MacGillivray will represent the Division at the APA D. Dr. Wagner reported on the APA Vision Statement. Education Directorate Advocacy Meeting. She also discussed the recommendations from the APA H. The Division was a co-sponsor for Psychology Ethics Committee and referred to her report that was Community Engagement Partnering for Social Change distributed to the members. She reported that the Ethics with Dr. Ruth representing the Division. Committee issued a report which offered no changes to Ethical Standards 1.02 and 1.03. Dr. Wagner and other IV. Conversation with Carol Goodheart, Ph.D., council members opposed this report and presented a President-Elect of APA: A conversation with Dr. substitute motion directing the Ethics Committee to Goodheart was held. She updated the members on her make the changes. The Ethics Committee changed its initiatives and the 2010 Convention. position and supported the motion, as did the Board of Directors. The motion calls for the recommended

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language changes to be submitted to Council at the changes to the presentation of the newsletter. They February 2010 meeting. Members thanked Dr. Wagner are considering have a monthly electronic version for her excellent work on this issue, along with the that gives up-to-date news. The quarterly publication entire group that is working with the Ethics Committee would still be printed and mailed, but would be more to resolve this issue. article-oriented than the current newsletter. The E. Dr. Morris reported that the bylaws change for seating printing and mailing costs would be reduced, but representatives of the four major ethnic minority there would likely be a need for an individual to edit psychological associations on APA Council failed once and/or work on the electronic version. again. She stated that this will continue to be worked 2. Dr. McWilliams discussed the PEP benefit. Dr. on and hopefully this bylaws revision will eventually McWilliams was able to negotiate a reduced fee to be approved and these delegates be seated officially. the Division due to the number of members who F. A discussion was held on the report from the Task have signed up for PEP subscriptions through the Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Division’s discount program. Sexual Orientation. The report was well prepared and 3. Zelnick reported that the Internet subcommittee scientifically valid. Board members expressed some is looking at the viability of electronic paper concern regarding the media reporting about this. submissions for the Spring Meetings. They are However, it was noted that Dr. Glassgold, chair of the discussing using APA software, at a cost to the Task Force, was quoted correctly. Division. 4. Dr. MacGillivray requested reports from Sections VIII. Practice Summit Report: Drs. Cresci and Wagner and Committees for the Newsletter. gave a brief report on this Summit. Dr. Cresci reported 5. Psychoanalytic Book Prize: Dr. Tabin reported on the that it was a very well attended, well-organized and winner of the Book Prize which will be announced exciting event. She referenced a specific presentation at the Division Reception this evening. She reported on a business curve model. Applying this model to the there were 15 proposals submitted this year. profession may be more difficult than expressed at the Anthony Bram from Topeka, KS, is this year’s book presentation. Dr. Wagner agreed that the meeting was prize winner. exciting and well organized. She referred to the economics 6. She also reported on PsyScan: Psychoanalysis and presentation and how economic factors impact practice. how invaluable these abstracts are to many of the There was concern that psychotherapy was being shown Division’s members. on the downtrend, and that APA would accept that opinion B. Continuing Education Committee: Dr. MacGillivray and not advocate for psychotherapy. They also discussed referred to the report contained in the agenda packet. the presentation of Integrated Health Care. They indicated Discussion was held regarding the process for 2009 and concern over the method in which psychotherapy is being how much it was improved. There are still some areas disseminated through health care systems, as well as that can be improved, but the process is getting better. the background and educational level of the individuals providing the service. C. Nominations and Elections Committee: Dr. McWilliams reported that her committee worked to IX. Conversation with Randy Phelps, Ph.D., Deputy create a diverse slate of candidates. She announced Executive Director, APA Practice Directorate: the members who were elected to the positions Dr. Phelps joined the board and gave an update on available. Suggestions were made to bring early career the activities of the Practice Directorate and answered professionals onto the board through the election questions and concerns of the board members. process. D. Program Committee: Dr. Darwin announced that X. Reports Dr. Bellinson will take over chair of this committee A. Publications Committee at the end of 2010. She discussed the programming at 1. Drs. MacGillivray and McWilliams referred to the 2009 Spring Meeting as well as the 2010 spring the report in the agenda packet. Dr. MacGillivray meeting in Chicago, including the efforts to get updated the Board on the plans for the newsletter early registration. She also thanked the chairs of the and the search for a new editor. To date they have summer meeting. The San Diego Spring Meeting will received five applications for the position. All of be chaired by Sanford Shapiro. In 2011 the meeting those applying are very well qualified. In addition, will be in New York at the Sheraton, which negotiated there has been discussion regarding how to make very favorable terms with the Division and has been 52 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst

contracted for the next three meetings in New York. XI. Old Business E. Summer Meeting Report: Drs. Berardi-Coletta A. Division 39 Practice Survey: Dr. Axelrod referred and Kieffer were thanked for their hard work on the to the written report included in the agenda packet summer meeting. Dr. Kieffer gave a brief report on the and summarized some of the results and gave an activities of the meeting. She was pleased to announce overview of the data. Discussion was held regarding that a number of early career professionals had the preliminary results presented. submitted papers. F. Consortium: Dr. Wagner announced that Division XII. Section Issues 39 will host the next meeting, which will be held on A. Section IV Bylaws Revision: Dr. Dauphin presented November 13 in Washington, DC at the APA office the proposed revisions to the bylaws for Section IV, building. ACPE is continuing to accredit institutes and which were included in the agenda packet. These is moving forward in a very positive manner. They are revisions were reviewed and approved by Dr. Wagner, also working through the process of being recognized Division Parliamentarian. by the Department of Education. G. Federal Advocacy Coordinator and Motion 2: To approve the revision to the Section IV Interdivisional Task Force on Managed Care: Dr. bylaws as corrected. Action: Passed. Goldberg elaborated on his written reports distributed during the meeting. B. Section Membership Numbers: Dr. McCary’s H. Awards Committee: Dr. MacGillivray referred referenced the report on Section membership numbers to the written report in the agenda packet. He that was included in the Treasurer’s report. This was informed the Board members that he would be given as a status report only. Discussion was held requesting nominations for award recipients at the regarding this status report. January meeting. The award winners for 2009 are: C. Updates on Sections III, VI and VII: Dr. Kieffer Psychoanalytic Scholarship: Kimberlyn Leary; commented on Sections VII’s efforts to increase its Leadership: Jonathan Slavin; and Founders Award: membership. Dr. Toronto commented that Section Johanna Tabin. III has sent a mailing to the full membership of I. public Relations Task Force: Dr. Thomas reported the Division encouraging them to join Section III. on the activities and progress of her Task Force. The Additional discussion was held. work of the Task Force intertwines with other efforts within the Division, including the survey results, XIII. New Business website redesign, etc. They have several project ideas A. Member Benefit for Early Career Professionals: they are working on to increase the visibility and Dr. MacGillivray suggested that he attend the recognition of the work of psychoanalysts. Conversation Hour with the Early Career members and J. Membership: Dr. King referred to her written bring a proposal to the Board in January. report and commented on the numbers of members. B. Apportionment Ballot Telephone Campaign: Dr. Membership numbers have dropped and it has been Cresci asked board members to once again make significant within the student membership category. phone calls to Division members encouraging them K. Early Career Professionals: Dr. Charles updated to give their 10 apportionment votes to the Division. the board on the activities of the Early Career She also stated that the Division would utilize graduate Professionals Committee. She referred to her report that students to assist Board members with their calls, but was distributed during the board meeting. did encourage the members to make as many calls as L. Task Force on APA CIRP: Dr. Metzl referred to they can to add the personal touch of a Board member her written report included in the agenda packet and calling them. updated the Board on the activities of CIRP. She stated that they were appreciative of the sponsorship by the XIV. Adjournment: There being no further business to come Division. before the Board at this time the meeting was adjourned at M. Education and Training: Dr. Downing referred to his 3:48 p.m. report that was distributed during the Board meeting. He updated the Board on his committee and the plans Secretary: Dennis Debiak, Psy.D. they have for the future. Their panel at the Spring Recorder: Ruth Helein Meeting was well-attended.

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Call For Proposals: PsySR Conference 3) a statement of the mission, scope, and potential contribution of the project to psychoanalysis Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) is host- 4) a table of contents; and ing a conference, “Toward a More Socially Responsible 5) one, and only one, sample chapter. Submissions Psychology,” July 15-17, 2010, in Boston, MA at the are accepted in hard copy only and must be in Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. PsySR invites quintuplicate. proposals for conference programs. Proposed programs should be 90 minutes in length. Most should examine and Blind review evaluations are conducted by the Book illuminate the links between psychology and social change Proposal Committee, the editor of APA Books, and an efforts by exploring general principles, case examples, or Honorary Judge. All submissions for the 2010 award new applications. Sample topics might include: psychology must be submitted by March 15, 2010 to: Book Prize and nonviolent action; building an effective anti-war move- Division of Psychoanalysis 2615 Amesbury Road ment; organizing in the 21st century; overcoming racial, Winston Salem NC 27103. ethnic, and class divides; combating disillusionment in Questions should be addressed to either: Frank politics; working with vulnerable communities; psychologi- Summers, [email protected] cal challenges and pitfalls in coalition-building; activism on or: Johanna Tabin, [email protected], Co-Chairs Book college campuses; and so on. Proposal Prize Committee. Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to Deadline: March 15, 2010 [email protected]. Complete information may be found at www.psysr.org/conference2010. Deadline: March 1, 2010 Stephen Mitchell Award

Papers are invited for the Stephen A. Mitchell Award. Estab- Book Proposal Prize for a First Book lished by Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Board of the Division of Psychoanalysis, the award honors our esteemed on a Psychoanalytic Subject colleague as well as a graduate student whose paper is deemed exemplary by a panel of judges. The award includes Division 39 and APA Press are delighted to announce the a $500 cash prize, airfare and registration for the Division third annual prize for a first book by a psychoanalytic Spring Meeting, at which the paper will be read, and publica- author. The winner receives a $1000 cash prize, certificate tion in Psychoanalytic Psychology. of recognition, and guarantee of publication by the APA Deadline for submission is July 1, 2010, and pre- Press. The aim of this prize is to encourage psychoanalytic sentation of the paper will be at the 2011 Spring Meeting in writing by Division members who have yet to publish a New York. Five printouts of the paper should be submitted psychoanalytic book. We look for good writing, originality, to the editor, Elliot Jurist, according to the procedure for as well as clinical and scholarly relevance. submission to Psychoanalytic Psychology and should include While some previously published material may a cover letter indicating that the paper is being submitted for be included, the proposed book should consist primarily the Stephen A. Mitchell Award. of new work and promise to be an original and coherent Division members, especially those with academic monograph. Edited collections of previously published affiliations, are strongly encouraged to invite graduate stu- papers are not acceptable, nor are edited volumes of dents to submit papers. There are no restrictions as to topic contributions by more than one author. Simultaneous or theoretical orientation, although the papers must be of a submissions to other publishers will disqualify the entry. psychoanalytic nature. The proposal should consist of: Manuscripts and questions should be addressed to 1) a cover letter with the only mention of the the editor, Elliot Jurist, at psychoanalyticpsychology@gmail. author’s identifying and contact information com 2) a full CV Deadline: July 1, 2010

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President APA Council Representatives Term of Office Mary Beth Cresci, PhD Judith Alpert, PhD - [email protected] 2009-2011 200 East 33rd Street, Suite #D Jaine Darwin, PsyD - [email protected] 2010-2011 New York, NY 10016 Laura Barbanel, EdD, ABPP - [email protected] 2008-2010 Phone: 718-625-0221; Fax: 718-330-0545 Dolores Morris, PhD, ABPP - [email protected] 2009-2011 E-mail: [email protected] Nina Thomas, PhD - [email protected] 2009-2011 Laurel Bass Wagner, PhD - [email protected] 2008-2010 President Elect William A. MacGillivray, PhD, ABPP Members - at - Large Term of Office 7 Forest Court Neil Altman, PhD, ABPP - [email protected] 2009-2010 Knoxville, TN 37919 Jill Bellinson, PhD - [email protected] 2009-2011 Phone and Fax: 865-584-8400 Al Brok, CSA - [email protected] 2009-2011 E-mail: [email protected] Marilyn Charles. PhD - [email protected] 2010-2012 Tamara McClintock Greenberg, PhD - [email protected] 2009-2011 Past-President Marilyn Metzl, PhD - [email protected] 2009-2010 Nancy McWilliams, PhD Arlene Steinberg, PhD - [email protected] 2009-2011 9 Mine Street Frank Summers, PhD - [email protected] 2010-2012 Flemington, NJ Lawrence Zelnick, PsyD - [email protected] 2008-2010 Phone: 908-782-9766; Fax: 908-788-5527 E-mail: [email protected] Section Representatives to Board Term of Office Section I - K. William Fried, PhD - [email protected] 2008-2010 Secretary 2010-2012 Section II - Jill Bellinson, PhD - [email protected] 2007-2009 Dennis Debiak, PsyD Section III - Judith Logue PhD - [email protected]> 2007-2009 300 South Chester Road, Suite 106 Section IV - Barry Dauphin, PhD - [email protected] 2009-2011 Swarthmore, PA 19081 Section V - Robert Prince, PhD, ABPP - [email protected] 2007-2009 Phone: 610-690-2442; Fax: 610-499-4625 Section VI - William Gottdiener, PhD - [email protected] 2008-2010 E-mail: [email protected] Section VII - Section VIII - Antonia Halton PhD - [email protected] 2009-2011 Treasurer 2009-2011 Section IX - Karen Rosica, PsyD - [email protected] 2008-2010 Marsha D. McCary, PhD 4131 Spicewood Springs Rd., Ste. C-3 Web site Address: www.division39.org Austin, TX 78759 Division 39 Office: Ruth Helein - Director, 2615 Amesbury Road, Phone: 512-338-0708; Fax: 512-338-4752 Winston-Salem, NC 27103, Phone: 336-768-1113; Fax: 336-768-4445, E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

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Volume XXX, No. 1 Winter 2010 Table of Contents from the president Marshall Silverstein’s Disorders of the Self Louis Breger’s A Dream of Undying Fame: What is the Division Up to Now? Fred M. Levin ...... 20 How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Mary Beth Cresci ...... 1 Ofelia Rodriguez-Srednicki and James A. Invented Psychoanalysis To the Editor Twaite’s Understanding, Assessing and Joseph Barber ...... 34 Ken Thomas ...... 5 Treating Adult Victims of Childhood Abuse Committee Reports In Memoriam: Lester Luborsky ...... 6 Laura Barbanel ...... 21 Membership – Devon King ...... 36 When Your Heart Cries Out, Being Carried Off Linda Andre’s Doctors of Deception: What Publications – Henry M. Seiden ...... 38 Henry M. Seiden ...... 7 They Don’t Want You to Know about Shock Diversity – William A. MacGillivray ...... 38 PSYCHOANALYTIC BOOKS Treatment Candidate Outreach – Heather Pyle ...... 40 Paul Stepansky’s Psychoanalysis at the Bert P and Mary K. Karon ...... 23 Education and Training – David Downing ... 40 Margins David Black’s Psychoanalysis and Religion Council – William A. MacGillivray ...... Karen Maroda ...... 9 in the 21st Century: Competitors of Section Reports 41 Paul Wachtel’s Relational Theory and the Collaborators? Section III – Judith Logue ...... 43 Practice of Psychotherapy Ryan LaMothe ...... 25 Section IV – William A. MacGillivray ...... 43 Caleb Seifert ...... 11 Gabriele Schwab’s Derrida, Deleuze, Section IX – Alice Lowe Shaw ...... 44 Marilyn Nissim-Sabat’s Neither Victim Nor Psychoanalysis Local Chapter ReportS Survivor: Thinking Toward a New Humanity Louis Rothschild ...... 28 Oklahoma – Laurel Van Horn ...... 45 Jon Mills ...... 13 Simon Clarke, Herbert Hahn, and Paul Appalachian – William A. MacGillivray ...... 45 Robert C. Lane’s Envy, Entitlement, Revenge and Hoggett’s Object Relations and Social Phildelphia – Jeanne Seitler & Julie Nemeth .....46 Negativity and A Developmental Perspective on Relations: Implications of the Relational Board of Directors Meeting Minutes the Life Cycle and Treatment Process Turn in Psychoanalysis April 23, 2009 ...... 47 Saralea Chazan ...... 16 Louis Rothschild ...... 30 August 7, 2009 ...... 51 Mary-Joan Gerson’s The Embedded Self Neville Symington’s A Healing Conversation ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS ... 54 Michael Zentman ...... 17 Michael J. Diamond ...... 32 Directory ...... 55